Media critic Jon Friedman has gotten even worse.

His column today is all about how hard it is to be Steve Nieve, a classical musician who feels like he doesn’t get the respect that he deserves from music critics.

Inexplicable, no? Yes. Until you reach this sentence…

I caught up with Nieve and Teodori last Saturday at the house they were renting in Amagansett, on the eastern tip of Long Island….

Ah…the old, “I’m on vacation but if I can find something to write about it won’t count as vacation” trick…..