Film critics are now expendable

I was rather disheartened to read a recent online article in The New York Times. The article, Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print, by David Carr, narrates the recent decision by several publications in the United States to lay off film critics from their payrolls.

Apparently, with so much ‘user generated’ reviews and information on films on the Internet, more and more people are turning to the Internet for film reviews, making film criticism in print a redundant function. Newspaper and magazine film critics, therefore, are no longer of great value… and expendable.

I guess this is another effect of the Internet revolution – and bloggers like me are to share the blame. But, my concern is, does this move foretell the future of print journalism?

Read entire The New York Times article here.

[Citation: Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print, article by David Carr, The New York Times, 1 April 2008.]