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It's hard to imagine a world in which writers are not allowed to express any harsh criticism of the work of other writers. I guess it would produce some really bad writing. If that's really how it works in American film and television, perhaps it explains a few things.
Are there a lot of fields where the professionals regularly tear into each other? Aside from politics, none come to mind.
Music
Heh, fair enough. Not sure I agree that recording industry beef is a model to be followed (and it would open up a whole 'nother conversation about how much of that is genuine), but fair enough.
Not just beefs. Artists and critics talk shit about music they don’t like all the time.
This stuff happens in creative fields. It doesn’t happen in other fields, because those generally involve tasks with predefined goals and ways of going about achieving them, and everyone is pretty much producing the same kind of output.
That's an interesting thing to bring into the conversation - Weir certainly isn't one.
He’s an artist
Everyone's a critic.
Law is a pretty adversarial field, though the tearing may mostly happen in the context of the practice itself.
Any sort of contest based profession usually has some large and clashing personalities that do some trash talking.
Scientists will go after each other's research if that counts. Dead fish MRI comes to mind.
Coding. "Who the hell wrote this crap code?" Checks blame. "Oh, me." See also Linus Torvalds mean phase.