Tuesday, December 04, 2007

He Didn't Even Mention Books

Sunday's Hartford Courant carried an article entitled The Decline of the Critic in which author Matt Egan described the decline of music, dance, and movie reviews in newspapers. In spite of the furor this past year over book reviews disappearing from papers, he didn't even mention them.

Not that my nose was out of joint over our neglect. I'm just pointing it out.

Evidently, though, all criticism is on its way out in print newspapers. According to Egan "the era of newspaper criticism, seems to be coming to a rapid and unceremonious end."

You mean, it's not all about the tanking of literary culture? How very thought provoking.

Egan makes many interesting points. "As classical music's audience continues to shrink, along with museum attendance, opera attendance, ballet attendance and newspaper readership, arts coverage has withered with it." Newspapers that once employed critics in various fields now either are using stringers or reporters who work in other areas of journalism for the paper and are just filling in. (Of course, that beats what many papers are doing with books, which is just not covering them at all even though the number of books published every year is going up, not down.)

Reading the work of good critics is more than entertainment, Egan says. It's an education. In the past, some movie critics, such as Roger Ebert (who is still working), for instance, were film historians.

Traditional book critics provided an education for their readers, too. Sure you always had your elitist folks who seemed mainly interested in showing off what they thought they knew to the lesser mortals who read their work. But you also had people who truly shared what they knew. You really could learn something from reading book reviews.

The Decline of the Critic makes it clear that the writing is on the wall for print reviewers of all types for many reasons. It also makes it clear just what will be lost when they're gone.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

world of warcraft gold buy wow gold cheap wow gold wow power leveling wow powerleveling wow leveling world of warcraft gold buy wow gold cheap wow gold wow power leveling wow powerleveling buy wow gold cheap wow gold wow power leveling wow powerleveling EverQuest 2 gold eq2 plat runescape gold runescape money EverQuest 2 goldeq2 plat LOTRO Gold LOTR Gold lord of the ring gold Maple Story Mesos Maple Story meso maplestory Mesos maplestory Meso silkroad online gold Lineage 1 adena Granado Espada gold Silkroad gold buy silkroad gold flyff penya buy flyff gold flyff money final fantasy xi gil ffxi gil EverQuest plat buy eq gold EverQuest gold eq plat eq gold Age of Conan gold age of conan power leveling EverQuest plat buy eq gold EverQuest gold eq plat eq gold runescape gold runescape money EverQuest 2 plat eq2 plat City of Heroes influence coh influence City of Villains infamy COV infamy lineage 1 adena lineage adena maple Story mesos maplestory mesos maplestory meso Maple Story meso potbs doubloon ragnarok zeny ro zeny rappelz rupee rappelz gold star wars galaxies credits swg credits silkroad gold silk road gold sword of the new world vis tales of pirates gold tibia moneyvanguard gold age of conan gold age of conan power leveling age of conan gold age of conan power leveling age of conan gold age of conan power leveling age of conan gold age of conan power leveling age of conan gold age of conan power leveling age of conan gold age of conan power leveling aoc gold aoc gold aoc gold aoc gold aoc power leveling aoc leveling age of conan power leveling Age of Conan gold aoc power leveling aoc leveling age of conan power leveling Age of Conan gold aoc power leveling buy ffxi gil age conan gold buy ffxi gil buy ffxi gil buy ffxi gil age conan gold age conan gold

Anonymous said...

pimp my black teen -
please bang my wife -
public invasion -
pussy ass mouth -
rachel 18 -
real brazil hardcore -
reality kings -
reality pass plus -
ronni tuscadero -
round and brown -
roound mound of ass -
sammy4u -
sapphic erotica -
see her squirt -
she got switched -
shemale hookups -
she takes it black -
shocking parties -
stacy bride -
street blowjobs -
street ranger -
sweet devon -
tawnee stone -
taylor little -
teen movie zone -
teeny bopper club -
terry lightspeed -
tgirl adventures -
tgirl island -
tgirls on girls -
the big swallow -
the pipe layer -
throat jobs -
tinys black adventures -
tranny surprise -
true twinks -
tug jobs -
vaginal cumshots -
vip crew -
we live together -
wild hot dates -
wives exposed -
xxx proposal -
xxx raimi -
tranny surprise -
8th street latinas -
18 interracial -
adult dating friends -
adult friend finder -
adult love line -
adult movie zone -
all big cocks -
all reality pass -
all sites access -
a lucky stranger -
anal destruction -
ashley lightspeed -
asian love line -
ass parade -
ass to mouth angels -
bait bus -
ball honeys -
bangbros network -
bang bus -
bang match -
bare foot maniacs -
barely legal -
big and slutty -
big cock teen addiction -
big league facials -
big mouthfuls -
big naturals -
big tit patrol -
big tits round asses -
bikini hookups -
black cocks tiny teens -
boys first time -
boys gone bad -
brandi belle -
brandy didder -
britney lightspeed -
bruno b -
busty adventures -
captain stabbin -
casting couch teens -
circle jerk boys -
coeds need cash -
college party dates -
college teens bookbang -
cumfiesta -
cum filled panties -
dana lightspeed -
desperately horny housewives -
dirty aly -
dirty schoolgirl -
easy drunk girls -
ebony love line -
erica lightspeed -
euro fuck toys -
euro sex parties -
evitas playhouse -
extra big dicks -
extreme asses -
extreme naturals -
facial humiliation -
faith lightspeed -
female pov -
first time auditions -
giants black meat white treat -
gigi lightspeed -
heather lightspeed -
heels and hoes -
her first throatjob -
hood hunter -
horny spanish flies -
im live -
in focus girls -
in the vip -
i spy camel toe -
jordan capri -
kinky lesbo -
lacey white -
latin love line -
lesbian teen hunter -
lesbo 101 -
lightspeed 18 -
lightspeed dvds -
lightspeed girls -
lightspeed sorority -
lightspeed tv -
lightspeed university -
lightspeed world -
little troublemaker -
lonely wives dating club -
mandy lightspeed -
man hookups -
meaty man movies -
men over 30 -
mike in brazil -
mikes apartment -
milf challenge -
milf hunter -
milf lessons -
milf next door -
milf whore -
miss mya -
moms creampie -
monsters of cock -
mr big dicks hot chicks -
mr chews asian beaver -
mr skin -
nikki grinds -
ox pass -
panties and fannies -
papi -
perfect dp -
pimp my black teen -
please bang my wife -
public invasion -
pussy ass mouth -
rachel 18 -
real brazil hardcore -
reality kings -
reality pass plus -
ronni tuscadero -
round and brown -
round mound of ass -
sammy4u -
sapphic erotica -
see her squirt -
she got switched -
shemale hookups -
she takes it black -
shocking parties -
stacy bride -
street blowjobs -
street ranger -
sweet devon -
sweet members -
tawnee stone -
taylor little -
teen movie zone -
teeny bopper club -
terry lightspeed -
tgirl adventures -
tgirl island -
tgirls on girls -
the big swallow -
the pipe layer -
throat jobs -
tinys black adventures -
tranny surprise -
true twinks -
tug jobs -
vaginal cumshots -
vip crew -
we live together -
wild hot dates -
wives exposed -
xxx proposal -
xxx raimi -
tuna party -
8th street latinas -
18 interracial -
adult dating friends -
adult friend finder -
adult love line -
adult movie max -
adult movie zone -
all big cocks -
all reality pass -
all sites access -
a lucky stranger -
anal destruction -
ashley lightspeed -
asian love line -
ass parade -
ass to mouth angels -
bait bus -
ball honeys -
bangbros network -
bang bus -
bang match -
bare foot maniacs -
barely legal -
big and slutty -
big cock teen addiction -
big league facials -
big mouthfuls -
big naturals -
big tit patrol -
big tits round asses -
bikini hookups -
black cocks tiny teens -
boys first time -
boys gone bad -
brandi belle -
brandy didder -
britney lightspeed -
bruno b -
busty adventures -
captain stabbin -
casting couch teens -
circle jerk boys -
coeds need cash -
college party dates -
college teens bookbang -
cumfiesta -
cum filled panties -
dana lightspeed -
desperately horny housewives -
dirty aly -
dirty schoolgirl -
easy drunk girls -
ebony love line -
erica lightspeed -
euro fuck toys -
euro sex parties -
evitas playhouse -
extra big dicks -
extreme asses -
extreme naturals -
facial humiliation -
faith lightspeed -
first time auditions -
gangbang divas -
giants black meat white treat -
gigi lightspeed -
heather lightspeed -
heels and hoes -
her first throatjob -
hood hunter -
horny spanish flies -
im live -
in focus girls -
in the vip -
i spy camel toe -
jordan capri -
lacey white -
latin love line -
lesbian teen hunter -
lesbo 101 -
lightspeed 18 -
lightspeed dvds -
lightspeed girls -
lightspeed sorority -
lightspeed tv -
lightspeed university -
lightspeed world -
little troublemaker -
lonely wives dating club -
mandy lightspeed -
man hookups -
meaty man movies -
men over 30 -
mike in brazil -
mikes apartment -
milf challenge -
milf hunter -
milf lessons -
milf next door -
milf whore -
miss mya -
moms creampie -
monsters of cock -
mr big dicks hot chicks -
mr chews asian beaver -
mr skin -
nikki grinds -
ox pass -
panties and fannies -
papi -
perfect dp -
pimp my black teen -
please bang my wife -
public invasion -
pussy ass mouth -
rachel 18 -
real brazil hardcore -
reality kings -
reality pass plus -
ronni tuscadero -
round and brown -
round mound of ass -
sammy4u -
sapphic erotica -
see her squirt -
she got switched -
shemale hookups -
she takes it black -
shocking parties -
stacy bride -
street blowjobs -
street ranger -
sweet devon -
sweet members -
tawnee stone -
taylor little -
teen movie zone -
teeny bopper club -
terry lightspeed -
tgirl adventures -
tgirl island -
tgirls on grils -
the big swallow -
the pipe layer -
throat jobs -
tinys black adventures -
tranny surprise -
true twinks -
tug jobs -
vaginal cumshots -
vip crew -
we live together -
wild hot dates -
wives exposed -
xxx proposal -
xxx raimi -
vip crew -
8th street latinas -
18 interracial -
adult dating friends -
adult friend finder -
adult love line -
adult movie max -
adult movie zone -
all big cocks -
all reality pass -
all sites access -
a lucky stranger -
anal destruction -
ashley lightspeed -
asian love line -
ass parade -
ass to mouth angels -
bait bus -
ball honeys -
bagnbros network -
bang bus -
bang match -
bare foot maniacs -
barely legal -
big and slutty -
big cock teen addiction -
big league facials -
big mouthfuls -
big naturals -
big tit patrol -
big tits round asses -
bikini hookups -
black cocks tiny teens -
boys first time -
boys gone bad -
brandi belle -
brandy didder -
britney lightspeed -
bruno b -
busty adventures -
captain stabbin -
casting couch teens -
circle jerk boys -
coeds need cash -
college party dates -
college teens bookbang -
cumfiesta -
cum filled panties -
dana lightspeed -
desperately horny housewives -
dirty aly -
dirty schoolgirl -
easy drunk girls -
ebony love line -
erica lightspeed -
euro fuck toys -
euro sex parties -
evitas playhouse -
extra big dicks -
extreme asses -
extreme naturals -
facial humiliation -
faith lightspeed -
first time auditions -
gangbang divas -
giants black meat white treat -
gigi lightspeed -
heather lightspeed -
heels and hoes -
her first throatjob -
hood hunter -
horny spanish flies -
im live -
in focus girls -
in the vip -
i spy camel toe -
jordan capri -
lacey white -
latin love line -
lesbian teen hunter -
lesbo 101 -
lightspeed 18 -
lightspeed dvds -
lightspeed girls -
lightspeed sorority -
lightspeed tv -
lightspeed university -
ilghtspeed world -
little troublemaker -
lonely wives dating club -
mandy lightspeed -
man hookups -
meaty man movies -
men over 30 -
mike in brazil -
mikes apartment -
milf challenge -
milf hunter -
milf lessons -
milf next door -
milf whore -
miss mya -
moms creampie -
monsters of cock -
mr big dicks hot chicks -
mr chews asian beaver -
mr skin -
nikki grinds -
ox pass -
panties and fannies -
papi -
perfect dp -
pimp my black teen -
please bang my wife -
public invasion -
pussy ass mouth -
rachel 18 -
real brazil hardcore -
reality kings -
reailty pass plus -
ronni tuscadero -
round and brown -
round mound of ass -
sammy4u -
sapphic erotica -
see her squirt -
she got switched -
shemale hookups -
she takes it black -
shocking parties -
stacy bride -
street blowjobs -
street ranger -
sweet devon -
sweet members -
tawnee stone -
taylor little -
teen movie zone -
teeny bopper club -
terry lightspeed -
tgirl adventures -
tgirl island -
tgirls on girls -
the big swallow -
the pipe layer -
throat jobs -
tinys black adventures -
tranny surprise -
true twinks -
tug jobs -
vaginal cumshots -
vip crew -
we live together -
wild hot dates -
wives exposed -
xxx proposal -
xxx raimi -
we live together -
8th street latinas -
18 interracial -
adult dating friends -
adult friend finder -
adult love line -
adult movie max -
adult movie zone -
all big cocks -
all reality pass -
all sites access -
a lucky stranger -
anal destruction -
ashley lightspeed -
asian love line -
ass parade -
ass to mouth angels -
bait bus -
ball honeys -
bangbros network -
bang bus -
bang match -
bare foot maniacs -
barely legal -
big and slutty -
big cock teen addiction -
big league facials -
big mouthfuls -
big naturals -
big tit patrol -
big tits round asses -
bikini hookups -
black cocks tiny teens -
boys first time -
boys gone bad -
brandi belle -
brandy didder -
britney lightspeed -
bruno b -
busty adventures -
captain stabbin -
casting couch teens -
circle jerk boys -
coeds need cash -
college party dates -
college teens bookbang -
cumfiesta -
cum filled panties -
dana lightspeed -
desperately horny housewives -
dirty aly -
dirty schoolgirl -
easy drunk girls -
ebony love line -
erica lightspeed -
euro fuck toys -
euro sex parties -
evitas playhouse -
extra big dicks -
extreme asses -
extreme naturals -
facial humiliation -
faith lightspeed -
first time auditions -
gangbang divas -
giants black meat white treat -
gigi lightspeed -
heather lightspeed -
heels and hoes -
her first throatjob -
hood hunter -
horny spanish flies -
im live -
in focus girls -
in the vip -
i spy camel toe -
jordan capri -
lacey white -
latin love line -
lesbian teen hunter -
lesbo 101 -
lightspeed 18 -
lightspeed dvds -
lightspeed girls -
lightspeed sorority -
lightspeed tv -
lightspeed university -
lightspeed world -
little troublemaker -
lonely wives dating club -
mandy lightspeed -
man hookups -
meaty man movies -
men over 30 -
mike in brazil -
mikes apartment -
milf challenge -
milf hunter -
milf lessons -
milf next door -
milf whore -
moes white booty hoes -
moms creampie -
monsters of cock -
mr big dicks hot chicks -
mr chews asian beaver -
mr skin -
nikki grinds -
ox pass -
panties and fannies -
papi -
perfect dp -
pimp my black teen -
please bang my wife -
public invasion -
pussy ass mouth -
rachel 18 -
real brazil hardcore -
reality kings -
reality pass plus -
ronni tuscadero -
round and brown -
round mound of ass -
sammy4u -
sapphic erotica -
see her squirt -
she got switched -
shemale hookups -
she takes it black -
shocking parties -
stacy bride -
street blowjobs -
street ranger -
sweet devon -
sweet members -
tawnee stone -
taylor little -
teen movie zone -
teeny bopper club -
terry lightspeed -
tgirl adventures -
tgirl handjobs -
tgirl island -
tgirls on girls -
the big swallow -
the pipe layer -
throat jobs -
tinys black adventures -
tranny surprise -
true twinks -
tug jobs -
vaginal cumshots -
vip crew -
we live together -
wild hot dates -
wives exposed -
xxx proposal -
xxx raimi -