The role of reviewers in today's society has been further degraded today by the U.K.'s Independent on Sunday newspaper, which has--our colleague Norman Lebrecht reports at his Slipped Disc blog--just made almost all of its critics redundant. It will, he says, instead run a digest of arts reviews.
Sad news for a society in which culture is--or should be--tracked and contextualized by its reviewers. And one in which the critic's job is also there to safeguard the pursuit of excellence in art. And so the (so-called) Sindy follows various regional U.S. newspapers in showing its critics the door, or else putting them on freelance contracts.
You can see the full story at Classicalite.com
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