The departed - Roger Ebert's opinion
Roger Ebert has weighed in on the shrinking ranks of movie critics writing for print publications.
In a comment to The Cricket's April 2 blog post "The Departed" - the first to list the critics who have lost their jobs (to layoffs, buyouts, reassignment, retirement or shuttered publications) - Ebert had this to say:
The list stands at 43 critics who have lost their jobs since January 2006 - 20 of them just this year.
In a comment to The Cricket's April 2 blog post "The Departed" - the first to list the critics who have lost their jobs (to layoffs, buyouts, reassignment, retirement or shuttered publications) - Ebert had this to say:
"It's part of the dumbing-down, not so much of America, but of newspaper proprietors. As they face hard times, they are more and more eager to pander to the their "base," which I suspect comes down to those readers who don't care how much read-worthy content disappears so long as they can find their horoscopes, lottery numbers, favorite comics, the morning line at the track, and Celeb Nuggets. After all what kind of reader wouldn't prefer to read about the DUI arrest of a big star than learn that the star's latest movie is probably the reason he got drunk?"
The list stands at 43 critics who have lost their jobs since January 2006 - 20 of them just this year.
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