Don’t Like A.O. Scott’s Top 10 List? He Has a Message For You.

So let’s say you’re respected documentary programmer Thom Powers, and you’re miffed that the New York Times’ A.O. Scott made a Top 10 — really Top 16 — list of feature films and only a Top 5 devoted to documentaries. Perhaps you’d get on Twitter and lodge a public complaint, something like this:

NYT’s @AOscott lists his Top 5 docs of the year http://t.co/IPhNjIPgIs Why not 10?

— Thom Powers (@thompowers) December 12, 2013

Now let’s say you’re A.O. Scott — nice, isn’t it? — and you see Powers’ tweet. You might take it in stride, or shoot back a diplomatic response about there being only so much room in the newspaper. Or, if it’s after 9 p.m. on the East Coast and you’re feeling a bit puckish, you might respond thusly:

my response to @thompowers and all other best-of list quibbles is summed up here: http://t.co/56C2coa7cq

— a. o. scott (@aoscott) December 12, 2013

Or, to put it another way:

@vjmfilms I DO WHAT I WANT!!!!

— a. o. scott (@aoscott) December 12, 2013

Just another day at the Paper of Record.

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Don’t Like A.O. Scott’s Top 10 List? He Has a Message For You.

Don't Like A.O. Scott's Top 10 List? He Has a Message For You.