{"id":348,"date":"2007-06-02T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/02\/assault-on-critics\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:11:24","slug":"assault-on-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/02\/assault-on-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"assault on critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Fogel writes about the alarming trend of major US newspapers jettisoning their classical music critics.\u00c2\u00a0 They say that they aren&#8217;t diminishing their arts coverage, but shouldn&#8217;t an expert provide the coverage?\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/what_started_out_as_a.html\">blog entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Fogel writes about the alarming trend of major US newspapers jettisoning their classical music critics.\u00c2\u00a0 They say that they aren&#8217;t diminishing their arts coverage, but shouldn&#8217;t an expert provide the coverage?\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link to the blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,117,17],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-critic","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-5C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":513,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/03\/how-not-to-fix-the-oregon-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":0},"title":"how not to fix the Oregon Symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the last two years, the coverage of the the Oregon Symphony in the local press has become more sporadic, and when it does happen, much more pessimistic, and maybe a little bit cynical. 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