{"id":756,"date":"2012-06-01T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/06\/culture-and-criticism.html"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:24:00","slug":"culture-and-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/06\/culture-and-criticism.html","title":{"rendered":"Culture and Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>TWO of my favorite journalists, film critic A.O. Scott and media reporter David Carr, have gone back and forth about a number of important issues lately. Some of this is analog vs. digital, print vs. Internet stuff.<\/p>\n

Some of it has to do with the nature of the press, of DIY\/artisanal culture, or the revival of vinyl records. And in this swirl of new and old, they ask, what is the role of the culture critic?<\/p>\n

(Cue chin-stroking music, please.)<\/p>\n

I wrote about a fading golden age or arts criticism a few years back, in a story — eventually titled “Critical Condition” — that drew so many letters, pro and con, that the LA Times added a Sunday letters page to contain them. Norman Lear responded to the article in a speech<\/a>. That kind of thing.<\/p>\n

My piece tried to look back, and to speculate on what was coming next. Here<\/a> it is.
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I’d like to think that what it said has held up pretty well, and that things are, if anything, bleaker than I forecasted at the time. How have things changed since then?<\/p>\n

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