Snark Attack

Adam Sternbergh at New York, December 28, 2008, review of Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation, by David Denby

consider the oft-made but pertinent point that postdebate commentators reside in “Spin Alley.” When we live in a world where professional analysts on TV can be trusted to simply say what they actually believe, then I think we’ll find that snark will start to turn its own volume down.