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Alrighty! Thanks for the daily dose of rage, you can move along now. #media
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Why don't you quit posting here? You're a bore. #media
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Who put you in charge? You're an overbearing pompous ass and yet you still post here. #media
10/29/09
I wonder what post churned his butter so bad that he had to sign up for an account?
Got to tell Pareene to stop with the Social Security posts. It draws the AARP crowd.
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An educated man would have figured that out by now but you continue to blab.
Boring. #media
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Man, you're so old you're back around to young. Get born, kid. #media
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You really have no idea who the hell you're talking to, do you?
You think Bookish is some sort of cubicled secretary frantically stealing glances at her computer before her boss comes in and catches her on Gawker? You think she has a limited vocabulary? Or hasn't seen enough of the world?
That's great. No, I changed my mind. keep this up. Show us how smart you are. Use some big words. Entertain me, sir. You have the floor. #media
10/29/09
I remember once, after a particularly grueling tactical climb in Nepal, I reached a ledge only to find a Buddhist Monk meditating with his eyes closed. I apologized profusely for interrupting him. For a moment, I thought he would not respond. Then, he cracked open one eye, smirked and said, "tell fuckinggoldman he is an angry old tool who should go play in traffic."
Of course, that made no sense to me then. But things change. #media
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Chore Boy is not my lap dog. He is an admirer of mine who has acquired the good sense and taste to appreciate humor and intelligence. Why don't you try?
Howling!
OK, kids, this has been a public service announcement from Gawker: Don't post angry, stupid and old. #media
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You think way too highly of yourself, you might try looking up the word "humility". Once you get a good dose of it maybe I'll see your "humor and intelligence".
Howling? Like a dog at the moon? Got it. #media
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I don't have to be humble on this site. Because I can cut the mustard. See my shiny star? See my five hundred followers?
You can't hang, you boring twisted old jerk. Now, screw you, Mary, I'm done with you. #media
10/29/09
Five hundred followers! Wow! Sorry, I'm not impressed by you, quite the opposite. Think big fish in a small pond. I can hang with the best of them you dried up twat. Blow me Susie, you're done when I say you're done. #media
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My work takes me to NYC quite often, so her vocabulary must be the standard in the publishing biz. Most of the time it just comes off as being pretentious to me. Again, thanks for the info, I guess even Harlequin romance novels need editing. *big smile* #media
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Notice anyone coming to defend you? Guess why? I'm just saying aloud what everyone else on this site has already ascertained (sorry: too big a word?): you're a sniveling asshole who should bail out.
Buh-bye! #media
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I don't need help defending myself from the big dyke bully thank you. You might be able to push other people around but I don't go so easily. I told you that you weren't done and you'd be back. I think I hear your vibrator calling, you can go now. Big kiss! #media
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10/05/09
Finke is a batshit crazy wackjob that everyone in town reads because they love to see her rake their enemies over the coals. They also love to feed her compliments and stories to get on her good side and avoid her poisoned pen.
Finke likes to say she doesn't give a fuck what people think of her, yet she's the first one out there to point out when she's being talked about and why she 'doesn't care'. Yes. She cares.
Basically, Hollywood created the monster they cannot control. It's like borrowing money from a gangster and never getting ahead of the vig.
10/05/09
I'd also add that while the New Yorker article shows her tenacity and cajones, especially in a company town that's all about relationships, what he glossed over, and where she was effing brilliant, was during the WGA strike, where she was the lone journalist calling out mega-corporate studios for their bs and serving - really serving - as ground zero for not only the latest information, but a place where all sides could air their information/opinions/grievances, both in her posts and in her comments sections (which were extensive, and because of the heated nature of the debate, she had to constantly monitor).
She worked her arse off during those months (to the detriment of her health), when other Hollywood bloggers and most trade journalists wouldn't go near the biggest issue in Hollywood. Of course they were largely dependent on the studios for advertising, especially during the run-up to the Oscars, when the strike took place. So here's this huge event that rocked Hollywood and the film industry - and Nikki Finke covered it pretty much single-handedly and round the clock as the press looked on. (Anne Thompson at least gave it a brief mention in her column: "I know Nikki Finke is kicking ass with the writers strike." !!!)
It shows how powerful these corporations and their advertising dollars are, to silence the fourth estate like that, and one could say it shows how powerful Nikki is, but it would miss the point. She had not only the courage, but the humanity and decency to insist on reporting both sides, standing up to corporate mega-powers and giving the writers a seat at town hall. So while she can be annoying (mainly when I don't agree with her), she has earned the respect of many.
It would have been interesting to see how she might have handled Joseph McCarthy and the Hollywood Blacklist of the 50's. I'd bet just about anything that McCarthy would have gotten the hell out of Dodge with his tail between his legs. If he'd shown up at all.
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Reporters delude themselves into thinking that they're capable of truly reporting something objectively -- it's for the same reason that the mainstream media is such a joke when it claims to be "balanced" when it comes to politics. The best way to be fair is to let your biases be known, and Nikki certainly does that.
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Just don't know why this post seems to harp and gloat on her health problems, social anxiety, being a blogger. From what lofty height are you judging her?
She seems to have quite a devoted following of people in the industry for telling it like it is, no matter the studio spin. She's apart from that system, so she can report on it. How is this a bad thing?
I don't imagine she's a fun person, but she's carved her niche. And I don't care about her cat.
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Yeah, I gots no reason to care about her. I don't even know what she actually does.
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From what I have been told from people in the building (I freelance and work at home), the cost-cutting is going to be way more on the operational/manufacturing/business side.
That said, I think ye olde fat contributing editor contract is going to be phased out at most mags.
08/12/09
I also went thru the last McKinsey visit where the water was taken away, and food at the salesmeetings, but all the people did on the business side did was put it on their T&E and said it was for a client meeting.
So don't feel sorry for the Nasties they know how to work the system.
McKinsey should actually look at the T&E, that is where the BIGGEST waste of money is!
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