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This chapter begins by questioning why we need to undertake research on radio critics and what insight this will provide. Then, using work from Anthony Scott (Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (New York: Penguin), 2006), James Grant (The Critical Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013), John Corner (JOMEC, 4(Autumn), pp.1–12, http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/jomecjournal, date accessed 2 July 2015, 2013), Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews (European Journal of Cultural Studies 15(5), pp.551–562, 2012), the chapter explores, at a conceptual level, the nature of the critic, the critic’s role as a cultural intermediary, the relationship between the critic and the industry they work for and the one they might write about and the wider cultural context they work in. This is then followed by exploring the specific situation of the radio critic, one who works for the national press and writes about the broadcasting industry within a particular dominant culture. This chapter ends by outlining the methodology taken within this work, including how the sample was chosen, the papers looked at and the form taken by the analysis.
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Rixon, P. (2018). Approaching the Study of Radio Critics and Radio Criticism. In: Radio Critics and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55387-4_2
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