A throng of spectators crowded the aisles and blocked the entrances to the Klingenstein Lounge in Egbert Hall at Ithaca College last night to hear A.O. Scott, the famed film critic from The New York Times, lecture about the evolving world of critical journalism. Scott’s lecture, entitled “Criticism as a Way of Life,” focused heavily on the new fad of fast-speed electronic criticism, known to the Internet-savvy as blogging.
Scott opened his lecture by evaluating blogging and questioning the critics who are fading away.
“What happened? Where are the great critics of yesteryear? You look around and you think, ‘Things are so bad now. What happened to the golden age of criticism?’” Scott said.