Judith Miller's switch from political correspondent to playhouse pundit has caused a stir, but surely it's not a bad thing for critics to know about the world at largeIn the early 70s there was a suggestion that Clive Barnes, then the all-powerful theatre critic of the New York Times, might be sent by the paper to Saigon to write about the Vietnam war. "I suppose if he doesn't like it," quipped a contemporary, "they'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PM on September 21, 2011