The death-of-MSM-film-criticism meme is what, at least five or six years old? Things have become more urgent over the last two years, one indicator being N.Y. Times media-watcher David Carr examining the trend in early April ’08. But for whatever reason it didn’t become fully obit-worthy to Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz until the 3.24 cancellation of At The Movies, and particularly A.O. Scott‘s 3.31 take on the Big Changeover.
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