Death to the Film Critic - All Hail the CelebCult

Death to the Film Critic – All Hail the CelebCult

Posted on December 4, 2008 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments

Roger Ebert blogs about the current state of newspaper movie reviews:

…A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out. The lengthening toll of former film critics acts as a poster child for the self-destruction of American newspapers, which once hoped to be more like the New York Times and now yearn to become more like the National Enquirer. We used to be the town crier. Now we are the neighborhood gossip.

The crowning blow came this week when the once-magisterial Associated Press imposed a 500-word limit on all of its entertainment writers. The 500-word limit applies to reviews, interviews, news stories, trend pieces and “thinkers.” Oh, it can be done. But with “Synecdoche, New York?”

— SunTimes.com | Read The Full Article