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Feb 13, 2009, 06:27AM

Reviewing the review

How do you want your writers spending their time? What sort of writing do you want them to be doing?

The answers are still forming:

I would argue that there is no "average" newspaper reader. There are particular readers, each one with a set of interests that somehow intersects with what the newspaper writes about. And I would observe that reviews affect theater companies directly. A series of excellent reviews in The Oregonian, for example, helped Third Rail Repertory Theatre leap into the local major leagues in only a couple of years. Which means that somebody is reading them, and even acting on them.

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