Paige Wiser, TV Critic for the Chicago Sun
I chose Paige Wiser as the writer that I'll attempted to emulate. I chose her because she has a long career as a writer landing a job at the Chicago Sun fresh out of college and remaining their ace TV critic for 17 years. When looking for a critic to copy I looked at sites where critics were rated and Wiser a 5.8 rating higher than other critics. Then I did a little research about her to get a profile of the type of person she was and the types of things she wrote about other than television. I found that she was recently fired from the Chicago Sun for lying about a story. She was sent to cover a Glee concert, she took her son and daughter and shortly after the show started one of her kids got sick so she had to leave the concert. Instead of writing about her actually experiences at the concert she chose to comment about one of the songs in their play list. A reader who knew what songs were actually performed that night revealed that the song she talked about was never played that night.
Wiser had previously covered an Oprah Winfrey event which she was reprimanded for by the Chicago Sun for writing a lousy review so when it was discovered she lied about the Glee concert the Chicago Sun had to protect their reputation and send her packing.
I read her reviews looking for fabrications, exaggerations, and embellishments as if my eyes are keen enough to could detect them. I found that she's just a good writer who because of her experience and knowledge of the players ( writers, directors, casts) is able to explain to the couch potato eye the brilliance or lack there of in the events taking place in that rectangle box before them.
below are a few reviews by Paige Wiser
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/paige-wiser/
I chose Paige Wiser as the writer that I'll attempted to emulate. I chose her because she has a long career as a writer landing a job at the Chicago Sun fresh out of college and remaining their ace TV critic for 17 years. When looking for a critic to copy I looked at sites where critics were rated and Wiser a 5.8 rating higher than other critics. Then I did a little research about her to get a profile of the type of person she was and the types of things she wrote about other than television. I found that she was recently fired from the Chicago Sun for lying about a story. She was sent to cover a Glee concert, she took her son and daughter and shortly after the show started one of her kids got sick so she had to leave the concert. Instead of writing about her actually experiences at the concert she chose to comment about one of the songs in their play list. A reader who knew what songs were actually performed that night revealed that the song she talked about was never played that night.
Wiser had previously covered an Oprah Winfrey event which she was reprimanded for by the Chicago Sun for writing a lousy review so when it was discovered she lied about the Glee concert the Chicago Sun had to protect their reputation and send her packing.
I read her reviews looking for fabrications, exaggerations, and embellishments as if my eyes are keen enough to could detect them. I found that she's just a good writer who because of her experience and knowledge of the players ( writers, directors, casts) is able to explain to the couch potato eye the brilliance or lack there of in the events taking place in that rectangle box before them.
below are a few reviews by Paige Wiser
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/paige-wiser/
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