Writing in his occasional blog in The Daily Telegraph, James Macmillan gives good reasons why the extension of blogging is a good thing. He feels some what sidelined by the cultural arbiters of taste in Scotland so he has his own blog in the DT and his own website. In the DT posting from early February he makes the point that so-called lay critics can often be just as insightful as the professionals. ENO's recent Borgia is an example where most critics laid into it - probably because Mike Figges dared to insert film into the opera - but all those around me in the stalls seemed to enjoy the evening because of the film not despite it.
What do others think?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jmacmillan/100051206/the-blogosphere-allows-me-to-shrug-off-the-orchestrated-venom-of-the-scottish-arts-media/
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