Until Nazi street violence all but banished such expression, lyric-writing social critics like Schiffer and Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring and Erich Kastner were as much the stars of Berlin cabaret as the onstage talents: Trude Hesterberg, Rosa Valetti, Kurt Gerron and even the young Marlene Dietrich.
LGBT rights have featured heavily in its pages over the past six months and, although the paper claims to support freedom of expression and balanced journalism, critics note that some of the content has been overtly anti-gay — even going so far as to claim that gay men are killing each other and deliberately portraying the murders as homophobic.
These characteristics lower personal biases, group pressure [ 10] and minimize the "halo error" or "halo effect" [ 11] that makes the analysis of free expression of objective opinions, critics or judgments possible.
Hence the expression "Everyone's a critic".
The expression "everyone's a critic" gets more true every day, now that every retail website offers a feedback form, and every potential purchase shows the aggregated ranking of all its past purchasers.
The culture is what it is — messy and multi-valent, open to a certain range of entertainments and cultural expressions — and the critic's yearning to dominate a larger audience is an index of the extent to which he or she finds the critical task insufficient in itself.
But is this enough in the age of Maximum Personal Expression, when readers and other critics chisel away daily at The Times's credibility with such a potent arsenal of communication tools?
The group also complained of increased restrictions on freedom of expression, with journalists, artists and critics of the government singled out under the guise of maintaining public order and public morals.
Ash Wednesday was not well received in an era that held that poetry, though autonomous, is strictly secular in its outlook; it was misinterpreted by some critics as an expression of personal disillusion.
"He was straightforward, often able to narrate stories to make his point interesting and to get the message across to ordinary Cambodians.'' Mr. Ou Virak said the killing would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Cambodia, making government critics fear for their safety as they had in the past.
