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Short sighted director…
Being forever known as dogshit guy is going to hurt his career a lot more than a bad review.
Certainly if I was a ballet reviewer I’d now find other performances to review than his – lest I end up at the receiving end of the next dog-poop attack.
Giving into bullies is always the right call… /s
On the scale from ‘shocked’ to ‘not that shocked’ who is totally surprised that the NYT is already writing the is-it-'balanced-or-is-it-fawning comeback article? Poor, poor, highly prominent figure who ‘just wants to be heard’.
As I see it, if the guy never gets reviewed, that’s his problem more than the reviewers’.
“Giving in to bullies” would be if from now on everyone only writes glowing praise about his performances because they’re afraid that otherwise they’ll get a dose of dog poop in the face. Not gonna happen.
Most reviewers are doing the jobs they’re assigned, by their papers, based on their own set of expertise. So, most of them don’t have choices about what they’re reviewing. They’re assignments.
And avoiding reviewing this guys would, in fact, be giving into the bully.
The NYT Pitchbot can’t stay ahead of the real thing.
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