More On The Plain Dealer-Rosenberg Affair

Joshua Kosman, classical music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, adds his voice to the virtual flood of critical commentary on the squalid Plain Dealer-Rosenberg affair, and it's the most trenchant commentary yet. Begins Mr. Kosman:

Newspaper writers know a lot of ways to lose our jobs. We can cut ethical corners by taking money or gifts from people we write about. We can plagiarize, invent sources, file stories from places we haven't been — the list goes on.

A couple of weeks ago Donald Rosenberg, the longtime and deeply respected classical music critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, found a new one. He attended concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra and wrote what he thought about them.

Now, you might suppose that that was more or less the job description, but you'd be wrong. Rosenberg's task, as his editors conceived it, was to attend concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra and write complimentary things about them — and particularly about the orchestra's music director, Franz Welser-Möst.

RTWT here.

(Our previous posts on this matter can be read here and here.)