Good Smackdown

This, I feel, is one of David Poland‘s best swipes at mainstream entertainment writer-reporters, particularly the L.A. Times‘ entertainment staffers who see themselves as providing a higher grade of professional-class writing-reporting than the online blogging community.

“It just goes to show you, surveys are skewed by the questions as much as the answers,” Poland comments. “The above is an ad for awards advertisers from the LA Times. I would rephrase: What kind of entertainment awards coverage are you looking for? (a) The same old stale stuff, written by angry, jaded employees of a bankrupt corporation who don’t ask challenging questions, but sometimes do trend pieces based on off-the-cuff poorly considered notions someone spit up like a hairball over coffee? Or (b) Thoughtful, provocative ideas that are not steeped in the need to cover massive overhead by selling millions of dollars in ads to the studios by writers who are not outnumbered by the ad sales team?”

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19 thoughts on “Good Smackdown”

  2. Blogs are all about feeding their news cycles. That’s why you’ll see stupid reports about offers, then two days later someone else has been cast. Most of these people infuse their writing with bitter sarcasm that’s it’s just unbearable to read anyway.

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  3. Terry McCarty – yes and? It’s a valid swipe. Also, it’s not only about Nikke, but about blogs in general. But, boy, did you nail Poland!

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  4. So what if Poland has it in for Finke and brings it up as much as possible? The woman is a cancer and a monster and should be run out of town.

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  5. Nikki Finke isn’t The Godfather, she’s Luca Brasi.

    The day she starts costing the studios money instead of helping control their PR, she’ll sleep with the old media fishes. Remember Harry Knowles?

    Poland’s a hypocrite because he plays ball with the studios as much as Finke does. They give him access & advertising dollars in exchange for his empty hype.

    His interviews, Oscar charts & box office spin are just PR & marketing trade offs disguised as journalism.

    “They run wild but they’re oh so tame.”

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  8. Rashad: “Blogs are all about feeding their news cycles”

    Blogs don’t *have* “news cycles”, idiot.

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