“I don’t read comments at all [on my stories]. That’s the lowest common denominator response,” says Kenneth Baker, an art critic for the Chronicle for 15 years, according to PBS Media Shift. “It’s pointless; they don’t call for a response. It’s mostly ad hominem when I have looked at them, or they respond to each other and not to anything I’ve said.” Baker made his comments as a panelist discussing arts criticism in the digital age.