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"It should go without saying that having a negative opinion about something popular is allowed. But a few years ago, in the fever swamp of internet reckons, people started to opine, rather gleefully, that it wasn’t ‘needed’ anymore." Photo: 123RF
This week, it's music and culture writer Tony Stamp reading his latest Webworm column, Totally Normal.
It's called 'Is Film Criticism A Blessing Or A Curse?', and he joins Alexia Russell to wade into what some are calling "the death of media literacy".
In August, the New York Times published an article about MovieTok, a new school of TikTok-based film reviewers who shun the word ‘critic’. To them, the old school was “snobby” and untrustworthy. They, conversely, were true fans.
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