Rod Dreher, a conservative editor and columnist, described the project as "insane hubris" and "crazy"; he further described the project as "It's like what you'd get if you crossed the Jesus Seminar with the College Republican chapter at a rural institution of Bible learnin.
Ray Kerrison, a "Post"columnist, called the projected hundred-million-dollar economic benefit "blood money".
The 34th Street plan came under sustained attack this week in The New York Post, where one columnist deemed the project a "budding Titanic".
Chakrabarti was joined on the judging panel for this year's award by Laura Bates, founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, columnist Grace Dent, novelist Helen Dunmore and presenter Cathy Newman.
Earlier on the day of the "Lola" premiere, the couple had met with Dan Savage, the sex columnist, about the project they're most focused on: a TV show the three are developing that, creatively speaking, will have Mr. Wein and Ms. Lister-Jones revisiting their time in an open relationship.
During her time in Zimbabwe she developed a voice as an international newspaper columnist, led a project to refurbish Harare city library, backed by $1m from the Swedish government, and made a tour of her old schools, observing the collapse of the education system in a poignant essay for the arts and politics magazine Guernica.
This year's Baileys judging panel also included Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, the columnist Grace Dent, the novelist and winner of the inaugural Orange prize in 1996 Helen Dunmore, and Channel 4 news presenter Cathy Newman.
Dan Savage, the sex columnist who started the project, concurred, saying in an interview that the videos were "helping gay adults realize that it's gotten better for us," but that "for teens, it's been getting worse out in the boonies, in the exurbs".
Dan Gillmor, the former San Jose Mercury News tech columnist, has started a project called Grassroots Media which, according to its Web site, is intended to encourage and enable more citizen-based media.
In February, he tapped Keller, a former top editor of The New York Times and most recently an op-ed columnist, to oversee the project's journalism.
This is further evidence of columnists' ability to project their own fantasies onto Paul Ryan's handsome face.
