"Columnist" Michael Musto Craps On Daytime Drama

[John]

Columnist Michael Musto Talks How Bad Soaps Are & Makes Fun Of Claire Labine's Remarks at WGA

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2012/02/a_lament_for_th.php

[DaytimeFan]

That's nothing, just a little sarcastic bit of fluff from Michael Musto, there's no need to put columnist in quotes, that's what he is and a well known one at that in New York.

[quartermainefan]

Yeah, Michael Musto has been a columnist at the Voice for decades and his comments aren't even so far out there. I applaud him for saying this

I needed this guy in the OT forum last month! Anyway, he has decent credentials

[SFK]

LOL!

[Shawn]

MM is pretty intelligent. Kind of a bitch in person when I've met him out a few times, and he can spot an 18 year old boy in the club from a mile away, but he is intelligent nonetheless.

[John]

Just dont care for some of the cheap jokes on Daytime

[Shawn]

It's his nature. He's snarky on every single subject he discusses.

[JackPeyton]

maybe daytime should stop making it so easy.

[Shawn]

BA-ZING.

[DRW50]

I don't think it would matter. Even when soaps were probably at their peak in quality, they were still seen as crap. I think those in daytime who were so ashamed of soaps are probably what killed it most.

[JackPeyton]

while soaps always had a stigma, looking at outside soap publications they were def treated miles ahead of what they are today back in the day when they were daring and progressive. they became a joke in the late 8-'s and as they got worse, so did the critics. You wouldnt see them landing on the cover of a typical People or getting a feature & cover story in TIME today, or even TV Guide, thats for sure.

[marceline]

He's right. And he's hardly "crapping" on daytime drama, he's saying what many of us have been saying for years: the soaps killed themselves.

True but the people who get defensive when someone criticizes the genre are the same ones who never wanted it to change.

[DRW50]

The media in general now is about sneering and sarcasm, and it affects coverage of any show (the only time you get a positive review is if a show is seen as hip - and aside from GH during the Luke and Laura days, and Passions, for a year or two, soaps have never been seen as hip).

Soaps were given more respectful coverage when there was a stronger press, but even then, they were best known as the unspoken secret Mary Hartman parodied.

[SOAPSFOREVER]

Soaps were/are seen as primarily women's entertainment; women, for all their advancements in society, are still viewed by many males as second class citizens, thus their entertainment is "second class" or "crap." Not so for all the men and their sports (NASCAR, NFL, etc.), though. Yet another double-standard.

[Cheap21]

That's crapping on daytime? We do worse here on the board on a daily basis? That column seemed rather tame and nothing too upsetting