A request...

To Mr. Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com;

As funny as this may sound, I go to RogerEbert.com to read reviews, articles, essays and the like written by, well, Roger Ebert.

This is not to say that your articles are uninteresting (which they are) or that I usually dissagree with your views (which I do), for your opinions are as worthy of publication as anyone is on this great, big Internet.

But please stop publishing your articles on the website's main page, listed right along side Roger's pieces, without any attribution, appearing to the layperson browsing the page to, indeed, be Roger's work, until one actually clicks on the link, and finds that it is an essay by you.

Please, move your pieces to another section of the site, or at the VERY least, do what you were doing for a while last year - list your name in the title, so that we know before we click that it is your work, and those of us uninterested in you (i.e., me) may skip over your writing. The very fact that your works are not attributed as such anymore indicates to me one of two possibilities: one, you've gotten lazy, or two: being the website's editor, you found that no one was reading your work on its own merits, so you started publishing again without attribution, in the hopes that the general Ebert-loving public would be fooled into clicking.

Please, sir, either way, stop.

-Jeff McGinnis

P.S. - By the way, the site has not improved since you took over as editor. It's much harder to navigate, the addition of "reader star ratings" is an absolute joke, and while I appreciate a more thorough catalogue of Roger's reviews than we had before, the newly redesigned and utterly baffling search engine renders their presence virtually useless. But hey, we get pretty pictures now, all right.