I'll keep it brief.
Nikki Finke, apparently exhausted by pretending to report anything, is now exposing exactly what she does and who she is. "Irresponsible, willfully ignorant, mean-spirited hack," comes to mind first.
And everyone knows it.
And no one wants to say it out loud… because it might draw the attention of the dragon.
And yes, there are even idiots who want to be just like her when they devolve into a warm, ugly pool of fear and desperation for attention.
She is what AICN was at the start (it’s changed a lot... calm down, Drew), only she is on the movie executive beat and not the geek beat. Today, it's writing about, then printing, then dancing about an e-mail that she was given by someone who was manipulating her. It's also an internal MGM e-mail about marketing Valkyrie.
None of this is reporting. It is gossip and nothing more. It will run its cycle, but only after another 18 months or so of people trying to use dumb Nikki to do their dirty work. All id, no intellect.
Run in fear, Hollywood. You have created yourself a new McCarthy... powerless and aggressively ignorant, but full of raging bluster and the threat of embarrassing exposure, whether there is any truth in the ugliness or not. Maybe it's a new Winchell. Either way, it is a blight on the community and an embarrassment to anyone remotely interested in journalistic standards.
That’s all.
I will continue to correct Nikki’s factual errors when I feel it means something. There are way too many to keep up with it every day. And really, it’s like being the maggot that turns up after the buzzard has picked at the bones. Boring and filthy. But sometimes part of the cycle of life.
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/09/nikki_finally_p.html