All these screeners like Jason Blume, John Braheny or Pete & Pat Luboff, where did they get their expertise to judge other peoples songs? Did they learn from others by reading their books or were they born songwriters, naturally gifted? I'm not being critically, I just like to know. By what or whose standard do they judge or compare a song to? We all know that the final judge that makes a song a hit or miss is the listening public. If the industry that puts out the songs knew ahead of time what was gonna be a hit, then they wouldn't put out all those misses. It's almost like playing the lottery, no one knows the winning numbers in advance, they just take a chance and hope for the best.