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hatchet job

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a hatchet job (informal)
strong and unfair criticism of someone or something, especially on television or in a newspaper. She did a real hatchet job on his latest novel in one of the Sunday papers.
See also: hatchet, job


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Appearing on the newspaper's editorial page (hardly an inconsequential bit of space), Cohen's hatchet job insists that the Guide is "historically wrong," "full of dubious assertions," and replete with "ideologically loaded" arguments.
He was right to call Kandell and the Times on what they did, but in what way does his hatchet job on SITE Santa Fe raise the level of discourse above comparable snideness or, rather, lower the standards of criticism in Artforum's pages to any lesser degree?
Financing the ad is none other than a Houston developer and major Republican contributor named Bob Perry, who coughed up a hundred grand for this hatchet job.
 
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