Comments on The Death of Criticism

Criticism died when we started seeing TV ads that credited glowing reviews to shitty web "critics" like AintItCoolNews [sic].

That's what happens when you choose a carrier in a dying industry... Buggy whip manufacturers have been in hard times for a while now...

Not really, @2.

The more resourceful ones shifted their product lines to cater to the BDSM market back in the 1930's...

These stories are sad.

Extravagences like Art must be put aside until America has brought peace to the planet through Militarism. Therefore, there is no point to criticism.

@5 Truly, solomon, thou art wise.

The Pax Americana wasn't won through the triumph of our poetry. Those M-16s aren't shooting opening-night bouquets.

Criticism attracts second-guessing and mealy-mouthed hesitation.

Ignorance is Strength.

@2,

Yeah, the 83 year old certainly should have foreseen the death of print media when he graduated from college 60 years ago.

Nice coverage, B.

Hopefully media outlets and their critics can eventually weather the shift online, but the public that doesn't care about the disappearance of qualified criticism will a.) be left with no record for future generations to interpret a work's cultural significance, and b.) have to slog through a whole lot of crap without a map, a result which may ultimately signal the death of theater. It's so much easier to turn on the TV and let it lull you into complacency...