Sunday, February 7, 2010

TimeOut Piece

Of all the reviewers in this article, Nathan Rabin was the most interesting. He has the ability to speak his mind and be critical with out being offensive. It is hard to get a point across to a reader when that person is offended by the way an article is worded. Rabin was able to catch the readers attention. The more important part was that he was able to sustain the readers attention. He was also able to bring up new sides to a argument or debate through out the interview. For example, "I think it has to do with an anti-intellectual bias that has long persisted in our culture. The idea that snooty eggheads don't know anything bout the movies that Joe Six-Pack doesn't." Rabin is able to not only show his opinion in this phrase but he also brings a new topic of reviewing to the table. Since Rabin is a writer for the onion, his opinion is going to be a bit more interesting because the onion is a newspaper based on producing articles and stories that aren't what one would typically find in a newspaper. This to me makes him a nuetral view in the review. Which also might make his opinion more credible to the reader.

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