Rejected Freelance Film Critic Slams Slate

N.P. Thompson, a Seattle-based reviewer who earned the nickname “notorious” for his predisposition to pan everything, expressed his frustration with Slate’s reviews section in the post-David Edelstein era and, specifically, being rejected for publication in Slate via an e-mail to editors Jacob Weisberg, Bryan Curtis and Meghan O’Rourke

O’Rourke gives the impression that living in a Manhattan or Brooklyn neighborhood (preferably Brooklyn, and the more gentrified, the better) is pretty much the lone criterion of worth, and that if one lives outside the bubble, then she isn’t going to read what a writer submits, nor will she even consider looking at a writer’s clips, and beyond that, neither she nor Bryan Curtis will have the slightest interest in making a new discovery.