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It’s Hard Out There For A Critic

August 15, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

This summer, the major studios decided press screenings weren’t all that — they bypassed newspapers critics in favor of popular review: weekend box office numbers. The recent Los Angeles Times poll suggested that today’s kids prefer peer analysis to highly trained professional analysis. We’ve suggested that today’s critics are out-of-touch with the real world.

So what role should film (music, book, architecture, etc) critics play in the real world? In response to a question from colleague Patrick Goldstein, there is this:

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Filed Under: Mediacratic Tagged With: books, critics, kenneth-turan, los-angeles-times, Movies, Music, patrick-goldstein, Reviews

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