You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (Part 973)
From today’s NYT: Newspapers Trimming Classical Music Critics
Doesn’t mean they’re giving them free haircuts either.
If only Paris Hilton could play the cello.
(No piccolo jokes, please.)
Seems to me that the papers are missing the opportunity to reach old guys with a lot of money (to stereotype the classical music crowd). You would think that advertisers would covet those eyeballs. I guess this is just another sign of the printed media losing out to the incoming digital networked age.
I hope the LA Times, in all its distress, can hang on to Mark Swed.