May 18, 2006
Thankyou
by Douglas McLennanThanks to everyone who participated in our conversation about arts journalism. If lively debate is a sign of a healthy culture, judging by this blog, we're going to do fine. There was a time when New York City had 17 newspapers, and they were constantly arguing with one another in print (how else where you going to get noticed?) It was not exactly the Golden Age of journalism, but the competition of voices made for lively reading. The debate in every arts organization in the land right now is about how to adapt and keep up with a culture that has more and more available to more and more people. The fact that there's more and more writing/broadcasting/podcasting about the arts has to be good, however it happens. So often it's not the voices you know, but those you don't know about who surprise you. Thanks again.
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