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①Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness/ of their arts coverage.
①It is difficult to the point of impossibility /for the average reader under the age of forty /to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism /could be found in most big-city newspapers. ②Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century /consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. ③To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents /were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.
① We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews /published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War 2,at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. ②In those far-off days, it was taken for granted /that the critics of major papers /would write in detail /and at length about the events they covered. ③Theirs was a serious business. and even those reviews who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know /what they were about. ④These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. ⑤So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough /to keep their own end up in ournalism,Newman wrote, "that I am tempted to define "journalism" / as "a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read /to writers who are".
①Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. ②Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. ③During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England's foremost classical-music critics, and a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography (1947) became a best-seller. ④He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored.
⑤Y et only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music/ is unknown save to specialists.
①Is there any chance that Cardus's criticism will enjoy a revival? ②The prospect seems remote.③Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly uphostered V icwardian prose in which he specialized. ④Moreover,the amateur tradition in music criticism/ has been in headlong retreat.
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