Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.