Tuesday Doings

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National Public Radio news media reporter David Folkenflik following an interview we did in NPR's 42nd Street studio this morning about the dwindling, dying profession of dead-tree film criticism. The piece will also include comments from other authorities (including, I'm told, former N.Y. Daily News film critic Jack Mathews), and will air sometime Wednesday afternoon. The online link will be clickable on the NPR site Wednesday evening.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 6, 2008 at 10:17 PM

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Dzayson says ...

Am I the only one out there wondering when Jeff is going to comment on the Indiana and North Carolina primaries?

Posted by Dzayson at May 6, 2008 11:57 PM

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JD says ...

"dwindling, dying profession of film criticism"

Seems an odd statement given the setup you have. Or do you not consider yourself a film critic? 30 years ago, I'm assuming most critics would have killed to be their own editor and make Hollywood Elsewhere money writing whatever they want whenever they want. I'm not saying it's easy, but you have a lot more autonomy than the typical film critic and there are many others like you out there. What's really dying are newspapers. Film critics are alive and well.

Posted by JD at May 7, 2008 7:32 AM

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corey3rd says ...

Salaried Film Critics are dying. Anybody can be a film critic if they have a livejournal or a myspace page. You're better off on the internet since you can link your reviews to youtube clips and referenced DVDs on Amazon.

and with today's movies, you really should be a comic book or TV reviewer.

Posted by corey3rd at May 7, 2008 8:12 AM

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