“Utah’s Independent Voice” of The Salt Lake Tribune has become overly independent of Utah when it comes to movie reviews in Friday’s The Mix.
As an example, the May 10 edition contained two movie reviews, one for “Poms,” written by an Associated Press writer and another for “The Chaperone” written by a Washington Post writer. Both the more popular “The Hustle” and more substantive “Tolkien,” premiering at the same time, were completely ignored.
Even as Utah has sought to acquire a reputation as an arts and cultural center, it appears that The Tribune has cut back the newspaper's local reporting of Sean Mean's long experience in covering movies and many of the movies being released each week.