But the acceptance into those journals is decided by editors, with the same thought process of the hiring committee. What makes their decision any more valuable?
I mean, seriously, it's 2016. When was the last time you read a paper printed on actual paper?
I know it's not what you meant, but I almost always print out papers before reading them.
> One thinks that underwater basketweaving is overhyped. Another thinks that great work was done in the eighties, but all the interesting questions have been solved already.
Then he cites three general Math journals as what the hiring committee can use to rank the candidates, not a journal specialized in underwater basket-weaving.