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So… I am a bit tired of writing about it and talking about it and I am pretty sure that the answer to it, ultimately, is a private answer. But today I found myself called out by Patrick Goldstein , suggesting that I broke embargo on Milk . Ironically, this came after an hour or so of me complaining loudly...
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It is certainly anyone's right to take a position on anything in this election. But if AP is runinng a columnist who is taking a position, shouldn't the piece be labelled as "commentary" and not simply published as though it is the same kind of straight news that AP offers most of the...
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Change, like death, is a funny thing. You may know it’s coming… stages come and you see them… but every now and again, while in process, you realize that it is actually happening. This morning was one of those moments. On the heels of critics getting knocked off left & right, more LA Times lay-offs...
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And so, the LA Times is now a one critic newspaper. Good times. Carina Chocano is off the payroll, leaving only Ken Turan as a full time celluloid thumper. As usual, fame before beauty… or youth… or a future. I have always like Carina and always thought she was much better suited to quippy TV writing...
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The AP (home of the neck & neck poll of 50% evangelicals) story
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Honestly, I didn't really read much of the drama around Roger Ebert's "review" of a small indie that ran last week. Our Ray Pride picked up some of the headlines on the front page of MCN. It was only when I saw the apology for running a review based on 8 minutes of a DVD that I was...
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I've been having an IM exchange this morning about the state of Traditional Media, kicking off with the Tribune Co's threat to dump AP as a syndicate, even though it has become an alarmingly major part of the papers in the chain. But there was also news of a “consolidation” at the NYT-owned Boston...
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Ya know... Drudge deciding that the news that Sarah Palin was found to have behaved inappropriately in Troopergate was not worth a link for the first 12 hours or so after it was released, then burying it, then pulling it after just a few hours on the site... well, politics as usual from the self-loathing...
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I love David Carr, but… This week’s Media Equation column is actually pretty tone deaf about Hollywood right now. The two people he quotes in the piece are amongst the most tone deaf in all the town. Peter Bart shows week after week that he is still living in the past, the only person with any access...
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"CHE will have its West Coast Premiere in a screening sponsored by Farmer’s Insurance Group at the Festival on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood" Will you be one of the 1492 people who see Soderbergh's Che' in the m-f-ing Grauman's Chinese...
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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...
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It's NY Post by way of Defamer, so we are starting with a pleasure in gossip, but... Why does it make me very, very uncomfortable when major newspapers find themselves in the business of streaming public figures' private phone conversations for nothing but their own amusement and the amusement...
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When will the New York Times make the effort to make their movie coverage as well edited and considered as the rest of the paper? Today’s latest embarrassment is Brooks Barnes’ summer wrap up , which is filled to the gills with misleading statements, conjecture posting as fact, and the kind of games...
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Manohla Dargis has given us a new word, not just for the critics' lexicon, but for the world. Jewface. And here, a rare image from the reshoots of Valkyrie . DreamWorks has come in with Red Hour Films to reconceive the project. Lee Frost replaced Bryan Singer as director and Wes Bishop was there...
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Goldstein uses the most petty journalist trick in the book, selective box office information. He writes; “This summer has been different. Without a true tentpole film, the results have been dispiriting. The studio's biggest hit was "What Happens in Vegas," a forgettable comedy that grossed...