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Originally posted by xwiseguyx:
Metacritic.com
IMO, any list if “best shows” which includes “Class Of 3000 Cartoon Network Friday” near the top invites some careful scrutiny before being taken seriously.
(Listed below are the “publications” listed whose reviews are somehow graded, weighted and then blended for the Metacritic score.)
What a joke.
Perhaps MC could have just used members of the Television Critics’ Association? It sure has left some time-flight TV writers off the list (but then it must reserve room for flak, IGN, Amazon.com, the Onion AV Club, Pop Matters, Paste Magazine, Slant, TVShowsOnDVD.com, UndertheRadar and a host of others who review TV occasionally.
That left an awful lot of highly respected, thoughtful and veteran critics whose votes aren’t counted. Critics who have to watch every TV show, not just ones they think their audience might want to hear about – or laugh about some new show.
So, as far as Metaceritic is concerned, there is no input from Ed Bark (long-time critic of the Dallas Morning News), Marc Berman of MediaWeek, Walt Belcher of the Tampa Tribune, Peter Ames Carlin of the Portland Oregonian, Rich Heldenfels of the Akron Beacon-Journal, Diane Holloway of the Austin Herald-Statesman, Virginia Rohan of the Bergen Record, Dusty Saunder of the Deseret News, Joanne Ostrow of the Denver Post, Rick Kushman of the Sacramento Bee, Susan Young of the Oakland Tribune, Dave Walker of the New Orleans Times-Picayune -- and the list goes on and on.
Leaving those respected voices off a “poll” of TV reviewers (not to mention including some – at best -- third-rate or fly-by-night organizations) makes such a poll too useless even to start a debate.
Here is the MetaCritic TV critic list:Amazon.com
The Arizona Republic
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Detroit Free Press
Entertainment Weekly
Flak
Hollywood Reporter
IGN
Kansas City Star
LA Weekly
Los AngelesTimes
Miami Herald
The New Republic
New York Daily News
New York Magazine
New York Post
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Star-Ledger (Newark)
Newsday
The Onion AV Club
Orlando Sentinel
Paste Magazine
People Weekly*
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pop Matters
Salon
SF Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Slant Magazine
Slate
Time
TV Guide
TVShowsOnDVD.com
Under The Radar*
USA Today
Variety
Village Voice
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
