This had less to do with identity politics and more the issues of this particular - I'm loathe to use the word critic because he makes what you and I do so much harder.

I suspect you can find the article itself online without looking that hard. I have held so many of my fellow New York Critics in great disregard for being contempuous snobs. This writer seems to be arguing the other side of it and making them look good by comparison. This was not so much criticism or about the Oscars. It was basically the equivalent of whining: I want my films to be including and the Oscars are elitist snobs for not wanting too. I've heard these kinds of arguments made before and I'm not unsympathetic to them. But I think I made my points very clear as to having some standards which I'm not even sure this writer had really. I've never been the biggest fan of the op-ed section of the Times on a good day; this was just another example of the kind of thing that makes their very, very elitism criticism look good by compariosn. And by the way, I have a plan to criticize the New York Times as a paper itself down the road. As someone who's lived in New York for thirty years it is the least New York paper we publish. (That does make sense by the way.)