I just finished listening to an amazing discussion in the recent \/Filmcast<\/strong><\/a> [Episode 109<\/a>, posted July 26th, 2010].<\/p>\n The \/Filmcast is a podcast from the movie review site Slashfilm<\/strong><\/a>, and features hosts David Chen<\/a>, Devindra Hardawar<\/a>, and Adam Quigley<\/a>.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been listening to the podcast for about a year. There are some good things and there are some bad things … but I find it engaging and entertaining enough.<\/p>\n What prompted me to write this late night post was their recent \u201cafter dark\u201d bonus episode that featured New York Press<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 Armond White<\/a> as their guest.<\/p>\n The episode starts with a respectful, but heated discussion about the \u201cState of Film Criticism.\u201d White eloquently describes his discontent and, quite frankly, disgust with how the Internet has soiled the art and professionalism of film criticism.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism,\u201d he says at one point. In short, because of Ebert and the Internet, people are writing as fans, not as real critics.<\/p>\n The hosts, if you haven\u2019t figure it out yet, are the exact people he claims are the products of this mess and are the ones ruining the professional field.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to describe it or debate it … I just want you to listen to it and think about it. Why?<\/p>\n Because this is the exact clash we’ve been going through in Journalism. Web, paper, pixel, airwaves… pick a technology, distribution method, whatever… this is still a touchy subject. And I think this moment, in this podcast, both sides met… debated… and walked away.<\/p>\n Fascinating.<\/p>\n