Comments on: There Goes Another One … http://coosacreek.org/mambo/2008/03/31/weve-lost-another-one/ film, media and religion from the banks of Coosa Creek Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:36:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rick http://coosacreek.org/mambo/2008/03/31/weve-lost-another-one/#comment-303 Rick Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:56:33 +0000 http://coosacreek.org/mambo/?p=254#comment-303 Daniel, I don't think anybody knows what will work, short of People/Us-style tabloids. It's really hard, I think, to do a balance, a blend if you will. Daniel, I don’t think anybody knows what will work, short of People/Us-style tabloids. It’s really hard, I think, to do a balance, a blend if you will.

]]> By: Daniel http://coosacreek.org/mambo/2008/03/31/weve-lost-another-one/#comment-300 Daniel Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:47:58 +0000 http://coosacreek.org/mambo/?p=254#comment-300 Interesting development. I still subscribe to TIME, but they're certainly backsliding toward a tabloid, too, and they can't get any sense of how they want to redesign the magazine. I actually still get the NYT on Sundays, too, mostly because I really still do enjoy holding a paper or NYT Mag, if only for the sake of nostalgia. Interesting development. I still subscribe to TIME, but they’re certainly backsliding toward a tabloid, too, and they can’t get any sense of how they want to redesign the magazine. I actually still get the NYT on Sundays, too, mostly because I really still do enjoy holding a paper or NYT Mag, if only for the sake of nostalgia.

]]> By: Rick http://coosacreek.org/mambo/2008/03/31/weve-lost-another-one/#comment-297 Rick Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:56:18 +0000 http://coosacreek.org/mambo/?p=254#comment-297 Not to mention, I believe, A.O. Scott. Yeah, I had a professional discount too ... I just gradually kind of lost interest as the mag became weaker and weaker. Not to mention, I believe, A.O. Scott.

Yeah, I had a professional discount too … I just gradually kind of lost interest as the mag became weaker and weaker.

]]> By: Marilyn http://coosacreek.org/mambo/2008/03/31/weve-lost-another-one/#comment-296 Marilyn Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:43:16 +0000 http://coosacreek.org/mambo/?p=254#comment-296 I think it's a little disingenuious of Ansen to bemoan the fact that "anyone" can be a film critic today. In fact, some of our best-known print film critics, including Siskel and Ebert, were reporters who were drafted to fill the critic's role, and I'm sure Ansen has no small amount of respect for them. I stopped subscribing to Newsweek (and I had a professional discount that made it practically free for me) when it went tabloid and news-lite in its coverage. I was particularly disturbed by the coverage of Andrew Cunanan's killing spree and the innuendos it made about the gay community. That was the final straw. I think it’s a little disingenuious of Ansen to bemoan the fact that “anyone” can be a film critic today. In fact, some of our best-known print film critics, including Siskel and Ebert, were reporters who were drafted to fill the critic’s role, and I’m sure Ansen has no small amount of respect for them.

I stopped subscribing to Newsweek (and I had a professional discount that made it practically free for me) when it went tabloid and news-lite in its coverage. I was particularly disturbed by the coverage of Andrew Cunanan’s killing spree and the innuendos it made about the gay community. That was the final straw.

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