A muted buzz over glimpsing fall lineup at TV critics confab.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......these are a few of the topics on the minds of TV critics. More jet-lagged than somber, critics are quietly checking in for their annual summer...Coming from all over the country and Canada, the critics are an eclectic bunch, who tend to disagree...

Looking forward to fall's broadcast TV? The critics aren't.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......presentations Monday at the Television Critics Association's annual summer press tour...event itself, arranged mutually by the critics and the networks as the most efficient...TV stars on the interview horizon, many critics seemed unenthusiastic as they assembled...

Looking forward to fall's broadcast TV? The critics aren't.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......presentations Monday at the Television Critics Association's annual summer press tour...event itself, arranged mutually by the critics and the networks as the most efficient...TV stars on the interview horizon, many critics seemed unenthusiastic as they assembled...

The Critical Condition: Trust me: I wrote the review Critics have come in...

The Independent - London;  December 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Critic. Small word, big responsibility, mean reputation. Critics get a bad press. Critics are vindictive, critics are destructive; critics are the enemy, critics are to be feared; critics are users, never facilitators...

TCA reporter's notebook: a taste of the critics tour highs and...

Broadcasting & Cable;  January 17, 2005 ;     602 words ...When it comes to pandering to critics, the networks are market leaders. At the Television Critics Association tour, television writers are shuffled...heavy hospitality suites. Thus sated, the critics get a glimpse of upcoming shows. Getting a...

Critics lose influence as they're 'out of touch with moviegoers'.(Life)

Cape Times (South Africa);  August 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Patrick Goldstein HOLLYWOOD: Who says critics don't matter anymore? The new trailer...a summer for America's embattled film critics. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's...stories questioning the relevance of print critics in an internet era that has ushered in...

Theatre: Where has the passion gone? Theatre critics are deeply divided...

The Independent - London;  February 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......consumer recommendation"? For British critics, the answer seems increasingly to be the latter. But whose side are critics really on? Is their ultimate responsibility...a book of candid interviews with critics and practitioners by the Bulgarian...

The Poison Pin-Ups Top restaurants are biting back at venomous critics by...

The Independent on Sunday;  June 18, 2006 ;     641 words ......diatribes from a growing army of food critics, Britain's leading chefs have finally...been prompted by the incredible power the critics now wield. And the trick is spreading...preparing for an influx of metropolitan critics ahead of the city's world- famous arts...

Studios turn thumbs down on screening bad movies for critics

AP Worldstream;  April 4, 2006 ;     636 words ......Worldstream 04-04-2006 Dateline: LOS ANGELES Critics are being shut out of more films as studios...year, 11 movies have not screened for critics before opening day, including the Rob...reviewers. The practice does not sit well with critics, who either must do without or scramble...

What are critics for?(purpose of arts critics)

The Economist (US);  October 12, 1996 ;     700+ words ...PROFESSIONAL critics have a hard time with Samuel Beckett's...vanquished and turns away. Yet, while critics continue to occupy a place in the esteem...it has ever been. Oddly, the power of critics has been increased by the arts themselves...

Chicago newspaper theater critics of the early twentieth century

Journalism History;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......values quite differentyly than today's critics whose main function has been reudced to...article examines the corps of theater critics who served ten Chicago newspapers about...huge and growing. And yet the number of critics is declining in two ways: when newspapers...

The poison pen pin-ups Top restaurants are biting back at venomous critics...

The Independent on Sunday;  June 18, 2006 ;     649 words ......diatribes from a growing army of food critics, Britain's leading chefs have finally...been prompted by the incredible power the critics now wield. And the trick is spreading...preparing for an influx of metropolitan critics ahead of the city's world-famous art festival...

Studios Shutting Out Movie Critics

AP Online;  April 4, 2006 ;     635 words ......Online 04-04-2006 Dateline: LOS ANGELES Critics are being shut out of more films as studios...year, 11 movies have not screened for critics before opening day, including the Rob...reviewers. The practice does not sit well with critics, who either must do without or scramble...

Yes, critics matter--this week.

Daily Variety;  September 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ...THE FACT that upwards of 30 film critics are known to have been put out to pasture...test the age-old question of how much critics matter. If asked during the summer, the...risk of, exposing films to audiences and critics who are often seeing four films per day...

Critics give new cable programs mixed reviews.

Multichannel News;  July 23, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Critics Give New Cable Programs Mixed Reviews LOS ANGELES - They came. They saw. And they alternately yawned and applauded. Overall, however, the cable portion of the television critics' summer tour will probably end up ranking in the critics' interest somewhere behind NBC's and ABC's presentations and ...