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Communications Forum on The Culture Beat and New Media

Featuring Bill Marx, Douglas McLennan, moderated by David Thorburn

Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists discuss the field’s colorful history, current decline, and possibly vibrant future.


(From MIT World)


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