Ben Lyons: Critical of the critic

Disney-ABC Television Group’s Brian Frons: “Did he spend 20 years as critic for a major newspaper? No. He’s very much of the TV generation who don’t spend time reading newspapers. I think we have a guy who is giving the information that audiences want to hear about film to make decisions about what to see.”  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

“I don’t like Lyons,” blogger Jeffrey Wells wrote on hollywood-elsewhere.com, “because you can tell right off the bat he’s too much of a glider and a glad-hander.”  (Marsaili McGrath / Getty Images)