By Tim Smith [Baltimore Sun, 18 August 2010]
You’re all tired of my ranting about the trial of music critic Don Rosenberg versus the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Plain Dealer — he sued his paper and the orchestra after being reassigned and forbidden to write about the orchestra, which had objected to his reviews of music director Franz Welser-Most; Rosenberg lost his case in court. So I thought I’d direct you to some commentary from a couple of other critics — one from music, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Bernheimer; one from film, the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips. (Posting their perspectives also makes it a little easier on me, since I’m technically on vacation.)