Lookback: on telling off public figures
From 2010: Unlike most middle-aged bloggers, I've been hearing from the public for the whole of my adult life"I started writing newspaper criticism while I was still an undergraduate"and so it's nothing new when strangers write to tell me that I'm a despicable beast. The emergence of cyberspace, however, has made it vastly easier for people to express their opinions of public and semi-public figures, either directly …