HONORING ROGER EBERT:
EBERT'S REVIEW OF SWATH -
EBERT'S REVIEW OF SWATH -
"A FILM OF ASTONISHING BEAUTY AND IMAGINATION"
For anyone who has studied journalism, you learn about all aspects of the genre. You also never know when you will wind up behind a desk giving restaurant reviews or working the graveyard shift giving news updates for the local radio station.
You learn that a neophyte fresh out of journalism school or one who has ticked off an editor or who "can't hack it" in hard news any longer were usually dumped into covering the entertainment news desk interviewing dolphins at the local zoo.
Today, in the world of 24/7 "gossip and gotcha" journalism (if you can call it journalism) money and ratings talk; however, there are still those who are around in entertainment reporting that one can respect as a journalist (do not see Rex Reed). Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, television host and blogger, was one of the few [remaining].
(Read more about Ebert's SWATH review after the break)
