1)It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.2)“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “ that I am tempted to define ‘journalism’ as ‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are.’”3)The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should “reconsider” its State Street Bank ruling.