ebert rules.

depressing and frightening in its implications, this journal entry from november leaves me shivering in my boots.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/death_to_film_critics_long_liv.html

"The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think. It is not about the disappearance of film critics. We are the canaries. It is about the death of an intelligent and curious, readership, interested in significant things and able to think critically. It is about the failure of our educational system. It is not about dumbing-down. It is about snuffing out."

true and disastrous for everyone, not just those who enjoy thinking. roger's journal never fails to illuminate and provoke a reaction from me.