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film critics and film bloggers at war (with themselves, not each other)

There was a post recently on Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch blog about the war on film critics. Newspapers all over the country are laying off film critics (and book critics, music critics, art critics…) and then Variety goes and slams professional film critics.

Meanwhile, some film bloggers are warring online (or as The Moviezzz Blog says “Blogger Fight! Blogger Fight!”).  Ryan Stewart at Cinematical is upset at not being included in the recent Comic-Con Masters of Web panel discussion and by what Robert Sanchez at www.iesb.net allegedly said at the panel about a blog owned by AOL (which means Cinematical) taking stories from his site without crediting him. This is what Sanchez had to say in response.

SlashFilm thoughtfully weighs in here.  Read Film Screen Rejects’ eloquent post here.  The Rec Show writes about the distinct appeal of different movie websites.

I miss the good old days when film critics looked down on bloggers and film bloggers railed against the main stream media critics.  Sigh….