The following query is about recent – and not so recent – events in Canada. But we think it applies here in the U.S. – and just about everywhere else – as well:
by Diane Wild
It’s been eight years since Variety published an article about the diminished ranks of television critics in US newspapers, replaced by wire copy or nothing at all. I wrote a reactionwith the Canadian perspective, which at the time I said was even more dismal than our southern cousins.
Guess what? It’s worse now, and worsening.