Criticism
In December 2011, the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized Interpublic Group for spending $1.3 million on lobbying and not paying any taxes during 2008-2010, instead getting $15 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $571 million and increasing executive pay by 32%.
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“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
—Walter Benjamin (18921940)
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
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