
#332 Russian spies, climate law and literary politics
The Week Unwrapped - with Olly Mann
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The Dangers of Online Hounding of Artists
I think that there are questions about, are artists supposed to spark opinion and debate and everyone is free to disagree with things? But I think this kind of the online hounding of authors of artists. This whole review bombing, this practice of spamming one star reviews for a book you haven't read or indeed for a movie or a TV adaptation you haven't seen yet such as the Lord of the Rings,. Amazon Prime TV show, which was also a review bombed before it was even aired because a lot of people didn't like the fact that there were black and brown people in the cast. It reminds me a little bit of Graham Norton answering a question at a book festival about JK Rowling
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