Once, when Wei Ziqi returned from a five-hour criticism session, I asked him which personal flaw he had identified.
At a news briefing in Washington on Friday, a group of business leaders and scientists weighed in with 11-hour criticism of both the test and the entire plan.
But when it comes to strangers on treadmills (or worse, elliptical machines) during peak gym hours, criticism may lead to explosions far worse than stench.
Everyone's a critic, the saying goes, and it turns out that this year's honorees are not immune from eleventh-hour criticism.
In less than 24 hours, criticism flurried from vocal outcry, jersey burnings, to racial threats via Twitter.
Twelve years ago, when he was seventeen years old and his début novel about the suffocating constraints in Chinese education had made him a celebrity, he appeared on a Chinese state-television broadcast and sat through an hour of criticism from education experts and audience members.
"It would be unpleasant for him to hear two hours of criticism of his country," Mr. Zhirinovsky.
After several hours of criticism on Twitter and Facebook the Facebook post announcing the program was removed.
Only after hours of criticism on social media did Earnest clarify his remarks, tweeting that: "Our view has not changed.
"NewsHour" came under criticism in a confidential May 2012 report commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the program's major supporters in recent years, that concluded bluntly that the program needed to aggressively "modernize news gathering production".
A Nebraska bill that would require anyone to report animal cruelty within 24 hours is facing criticism.
