Comments on: Les Pauvres http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/les-pauvres/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 16 May 2008 21:14:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chuck http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/les-pauvres/#comment-2539 Chuck Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:49:57 +0000 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/les-pauvres/#comment-2539 Poor Richard. I <a href="http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/05/21/storming-the-gates/" rel="nofollow">wrote about</a> Schickel's article a few weeks ago on New Critics, and, yes, he's clearly upset that the bloggers are storming the gates (or the press lines or something). He does have a small point about professional film critics losing their jobs. Eleanor Ringel-Gillespie, a critic I read for 25 years in Atlanta, was basically fired by the Atlanta Journal in a cost-cutting move. But I think this less about film blogs than it is about media conglomerates placing profit over offering a solid news product. Culture pages are obviously pretty expensive, so she and the book editor (among others) lost their jobs. That being said, most of the best film reviewers I read are bloggers. Poor Richard. I wrote about Schickel’s article a few weeks ago on New Critics, and, yes, he’s clearly upset that the bloggers are storming the gates (or the press lines or something). He does have a small point about professional film critics losing their jobs. Eleanor Ringel-Gillespie, a critic I read for 25 years in Atlanta, was basically fired by the Atlanta Journal in a cost-cutting move.

But I think this less about film blogs than it is about media conglomerates placing profit over offering a solid news product. Culture pages are obviously pretty expensive, so she and the book editor (among others) lost their jobs. That being said, most of the best film reviewers I read are bloggers.

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