He praises our program Siskel & Ebert with faint damns (we are the best of a bad lot, I am a
jolly chap, etc.) and then says, «I simply don't want people to think that what they have to do on TV is what I'm supposed to do in print:» But that is not the real problem
facing Corliss, who might better have asked why what he has to do in
Time is what he's supposed to do in print.