Not really good enough. The projectionist incident still stands as an example of how the company acts.
And "taking it down" is definitely not a real answer. It's not the effect of the posting - as no one who is not in the business or in a demographic that would ever pay for a ticket to Wolverine reads this idiot anyway - it is the choice to post. And don't even get me started on what lies Friedman spreads in professional situations not for publication.
It's not as though Friedman doesn't have a long history of working for Harvey Weinstein, Peggy Siegel, and others more slavishly than News Corp.
I can think of no gossip who deserves to be fired more than Roger Friedman. And now, he has acted in a way that News Corp has historically seen as a firing act.
Here are the dueling press releases...
Los Angeles, Calif., April 3, 2009 --
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX:
"We‚ve been made aware that Roger Friedman, a freelance columnist who writes Fox 411 on Foxnews.com ˆ an entirely separate company from 20th Century Fox -- watched on the internet and reviewed a stolen and unfinished version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This behavior is reprehensible and we condemn this act categorically -- whether the review is good or bad."
NEWS CORPORATION:
"Roger Friedman's views in no way reflect the views of News Corporation. We, along with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, have been a consistent leader in the fight against piracy and have zero tolerance for any action that encourages and promotes piracy. Once we learned of Roger Friedman's post we asked Fox News to remove it, which they did immediately."
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2009/04/more_on_friedma.html