Replacing criticism with information is a fascist precursor now generalized

Evidence

The National Socialists, who anticipated all this in brutal fashion - thereby unmasking it paradisically - were in relation to the category of the critical precisely the heralds of a coming development; this was manifested in their replacement of criticism with their own observations upon art, which in actuality offered only information on factual matters. This same tendency is to be noted in the increasing suppression of the critical spirit today; a journal of the avant-garde proudly displays the sub-title ‘Information’. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 168

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Directly usable when testing the reader’s target: streaming-era ‘reviews’ as recommendation data, festival curation reports, VOD metadata — criticism reduced to information, exactly as Adorno predicted. Strong candidate for the ‘lands’ column.
• ADDENDUM: Beyond the three listed articles, this parallels the ‘information over criticism’ theme the reader has noted in noise/media work.