Earlier this week, I wrote about the
brouhaha over the documentary
Bully and its R rating. Matt Singer, who writes the
Criticwire blog over at Indiewire, invited me to debate
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, who
sees the issue differently than I do. Andrew and I both answered some of Matt's email questions, and you can see what we both had to say
here. I think anyone who reads Andrew's and my articles and then reads our responses to each other will be struck by how much we see eye-to-eye on the general stupidity of the MPAA's ratings board -- we just differ on exactly what should be done (if anything) to fix the problem.