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This is the Question of the Day posed by MaryAnn Johanson, the Flick Filosopher.  She’s been writing intelligent, witty commentary for as long as I’ve been reading film criticism on the Internet (since the mid-90s or so), and it saddens me that she’s feeling depressed about her job prospects.  I don’t want an Internet without MaryAnn Johanson.  If a major trade publication like Variety doesn’t see economic sense in paying a full-time critic, there’s an even slimmer chance that freelancer/blogger like Johanson, even with syndicated reviews, can get by entirely on writing about movies.  Her worries about the shrinking audience for film criticism may be justified, but I found another of her thought threads even more potent.   Read the rest of this entry »