Why Are Popular Movie and TV Critics Losing Their Jobs?

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Yesterday, Oliver Darcy’s Status reported that Rolling Stone had abruptly fired Alan Sepinwall, along with several other staffers (Sepinwall later confirmed the news on social media). He’s the latest high-profile casualty in the ongoing gutting of cultural criticism, joining Vanity Fair ’s Richard Lawson, the Chicago Tribune ’s Michael Phillips, a slate of long-time critics at The New York Times (including a personal favorite, Margaret Lyons), and far too many others to name without it feeling like salt in the wound.

Why does this keep happening? It’s a perfect storm of collapsing forces: the rise of TikTok “criticism” (often little more than studio-sponsored content ), the Rotten Tom

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