Television critics need to change too - July 13th, 2007 - Lost Remote TV Blog:
What do you think? Are TV critics even needed at papers anymore? All Your TV says it’s time the critics realize the world has changed.

Maybe TV blogs are the new TV column.
Charles: Guys, if it weren’t for comics, who would read the paper EVER? I think that if you want to stay relevant and have things in the paper that people care about, you need some TV columnists. I think even if the mentality of newspapers change from being the primary news source to just a suppliment, people will still expect in-depth entertainment coverage. You can also read the newspaper AND websites. It’s not a either-or. yeah.
Steve Boriss (TheFutureOfNews.com) : We may or may not need TV critics, but we will no doubt end-up with a whole lot fewer of them. There is no reason to have people in each metro area writing about the same shows when we could have a handful of the most talented do it for the whole country. This will be an example of a “productivity gain” our economy will get from the Internet.

theTVaddict: While I have the utmost respect for numerous critics across the country (Tim Goodman, Alan Sepinwall, Maureen Ryan to name a few cool those are the ones I have read) the TCA and networks in general have to start realizing that sites like mine and many others are starting to gain as many readers as the so-called ‘mainstream media.’

Eric Deggans TV/Media Critic, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times:
Writing as a TV critic who is headed out to TCA on Sunday, i’ll admit i’m a biased source. But so, too, is the author of All Your TV, who admits at the end of his TCA critique that he was denied admission to the press tour, which might inpsire a little anti-TCA agita.
When i served on the TCA’s membership committee, i tried to open up our ranks a little. But the fact remains that if more than 200 or so critics are admitted to press tour the whole event becomes much more unwieldy for everyone. fair enough. So giving membership to those who only write for web sites has been a slow process.
TCA-bashing is a sport many folks enjoy, and i don’t want to stop anybody from releasing a little tension. But the fact is, TCA allows a guy like me, writing 1,000 miles from New York and 5,000 miles from Los Angeles, to make personal connections with the most powerful people in the media business.
I think good TV critics tell great stories about television. They help people understand the medium and echo the sharpest thinking around.
I’m not sure why All Your TV doesn’t realize it, but most major TV critics already have blogs now, including me. (It’s called The Feed.) We post stuff every day or more often — and sometimes our blog posts get as much attention as our newspaper work.
Some TV critics around the country may be boring. But I dare you to read anything written by Tim Goodman in San Francisco, Alan Sepinwall in Newark, Melanie McFarland in Seattle, Glenn Garvin in Miami or Tom Shales in Washington without enjoying it — at least, a little bit.

Frank Catalano:The Web can be a better vehicle for critics. But even some TV critics get it and have their own blogs which can be even more lively than their columns and aren’t subject to space or frequency limitations (one of my favorities is Melanie McFarland at the Seattle PI; great TV Gal blog).