Walter Goodman (critic)

Walter Goodman (1927–2002) was an American author and journalist for The New York Times and worked as the newspaper's television critic concentrating on news and documentaries.

[1] Goodman moved to London as an editor for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a bureau of the American Central Intelligence Agency that monitored radio news content.

"Goodman knew the critics and the politico-literary establishment, and where and how their work could be bought," wrote Thomas Weyr in his book Reaching for Paradise: The Playboy Vision of America.

The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states: Intelligently covering TV, Goodman always delves beneath the surface with originality and wisdom.

But he mixes heavy prose with a wit so dry it often fails to amuse, and his cerebral style weighs down, his complex, cynical pronouncements about what's wrong with the world.