Comments on: Local blogs, websites, newspapers, and all media: please stop celebrating mediocrity

By: Nippertown!

Nippertown! — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:25 +0000

[…] From Kevin Marshall’s America: A plea to the local media to stop celebrating mediocrity. […]

By: Jessica Pasko

Jessica Pasko — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:41:00 +0000

At the same time, to play devil’s advocate — while there were a number of people who didn’t like or get the thing you’re referring to, there also was a significant number of people who legitimately did. I think if a media outlet or blog legitimately thinks something is good and/or creative, than they should point it out. What shouldn’t happen is that just because a band/artist/writer/comedian is local, there’s this sort of unspoken belief that they are untouchable and immune to criticism – with the implicit suggestion that anyone who thinks otherwise is a total moron. But don’t get me started on the 518 rap scene…..

By: Jessica Pasko

Jessica Pasko — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:36:00 +0000

I feel this way about a certain local poet…among others.

A friend once had the “audacity” to bring this exact topic up after a now-defunct local arts group said they wanted actual input from the community, and yet he was raked over the coals for it. He was accused of not only being unsupportive of local artists, but also of being a moron.

By: Sébastien Barré

Sébastien Barré — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t get that Hajek thing either :)

By: dave

dave — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0000

I celebrate mediocrity (my own and that of others) and I consider myself a connoisseur of the droll and the banal. I take the opposite tack as you, I will tolerate the mediocre that is familiar at the expense of the superlative that is outside of my small (self-imposed) realm of life.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:15:00 +0000

It’s been a day.

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Marshall finally responds to criticism.

By: Wendy Voelker

Wendy Voelker — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:37:00 +0000

And now it’s “mediocority”! When in doubt, add some O’s!

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0000

OK. Green blast Marshall for typo in his title on “medicority”