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BlinkyMcChuck
10/30/09

In reply to Why Nikki Finke Never Makes a Mistake
Nicely done. I love how she's all "Gawker doesn't practice journalism" while you're...trying to get her on the record. #nikkifinke
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Trai_Dep
10/30/09

In reply to Why Nikki Finke Never Makes a Mistake
The thing that's a shame is that we get that scoops require publishing when all the information isn't in, or time enough to process it and come up with decent analysis.
I don't think she'd lose much cred by following the strikethru standard that many blogs use for updated writing. In fact, Finke would gain quite a lot. #nikkifinke
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raincoaster
10/30/09

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Fisking Finke? Futile. #nikkifinke
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andreat
10/29/09

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She's changed it again!
THURSDAY 10:30 AM: Sony just announced that Michael Jackson’s This Is It opened Wednesday all around the world in 99 countries with a 1-day gross of $20.1 million. The studio's press statement called it "an extraordinary start" but, immediately, Hollywood considered that number disappointing after all the pre-sales hype surrounding the concert footage and its 2-week limited run. #nikkifinke
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John Cook
10/30/09

@andreat: Indeed. Wow.
[www.deadline.com] #nikkifinke
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GlasgowRose
10/29/09

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"‘You lied to me! You lied to me! You lied to me!’ She hates being lied to." - Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Nikki Finki Kinki Gerlinki.

[www.newyorker.com] #nikkifinke
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marnapalmer001
10/29/09

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I work in the industry and I am so sick of this broad. She is the Perez Hilton of "real" gossip. I wouldn't be surprised to see white eraser marks all over Ben Silverman's face. Like the other readers said: her posts are sooo self congratulatory that I finally stopped reading, insider info or not. And her "updates to come...." and "DHD dark for 2 days...." only to turn into a week are obnoxious.
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MrInBetween
10/29/09

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A blue-ribbon committee should be impaneled to determine if there really are two Ks in Nikki and an E bringing up the rear of Finke.
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bowel_and_the_obstructors
10/29/09

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She seems to be a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. #nikkifinke
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Cynical Media Bitch
10/29/09

@bowel_and_the_obstructors: Nikkissistic Personality Disorder, defined as "a pervasive pattern of toldjaosity, a need for validation, and a lack of consistency," is already planned for inclusion in DSM-V. #nikkifinke
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Airvault
10/29/09

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I'm sure Nikki will be repeating that to herself tonight in her sleep: "In life, there are no doovers." #nikkifinke
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Poop Cooper
10/29/09

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Wait, what RSS reader are you guys using? I want it!

Edit: Just to clarify, that's not shtick, I really am interested in hearing what kind of RSS software is being used, especially if it notates changes like the image at the head of the post.
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John Cook
10/29/09

@Poop Cooper: NetNewsWire for Mac, the full version you have to buy. Don't tell anybody! #nikkifinke
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Gabriel Snyder
10/29/09

@John Cook: It's especially useful if you want to follow the correction of typos on Gawker. #nikkifinke
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Trai_Dep
10/30/09

@Gabriel Snyder: Its powers must be vast indeed.
(Yet gloriously, hypocritically thankful it doesn't work on commentators' changes done during the 5-minute edit window) #nikkifinke
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/29/09

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Hey, wait a sec... did you see what she did there? She made us assume that journalism is an ethical profession. She's gooooood. #nikkifinke
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/29/09

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There should be a law that on-line content needs a "track changes" feature. Wikipedia supposedly has it, but even they have mysterious little lapses in their tracking system.

[note: I made an edit to this comment. Originally, it read: She's full of shit, you're full of shit, we're all so full of shit we could just just explode.] #nikkifinke
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hotpinklovesofa
10/29/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Who told you to edit?! Next time leave it. The truth may hurt but it's still the truth. :)
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dontread
10/29/09

@hotpinklovesofa: Although you appear to have edited your own comment! What untold ironies lay therein; we will never know. . . :^) #nikkifinke
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hotpinklovesofa
10/29/09

@dontread: I wish I could say it was something witty and snarky but I was only correcting a typo.

I will say that I wouldn't be surprised if she and my former boss, who was finally laid off but should've been fired years ago, were very good friends. She too went dark for several days, did a half-assed job when she finally showed up at the office, and played martyr and victim whenever someone called her on her shiteous work 'ethic'. #nikkifinke
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Perhaps Not
10/29/09

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John, you should update every time she calls you asking you to change something in this post. #nikkifinke
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BicycleShed
10/29/09

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I would so rather have a Nikki Finke/DHD movie rather than a Facebook movie. The frisson of 21st century digital journalism and Grey Gardens-like agoraphobia really cannot be denied. #nikkifinke
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cpjones
10/29/09

@BicycleShed: It could be a rom/com with Nikki hating, then falling in love with Ben Silverman, with Jeff Zucker as the evil bad guy who secretly crushes on Nikke too. But who would star in such a monstrosity? Jeffrey Tambor as Zucker for sure. #nikkifinke
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BicycleShed
10/30/09

@cpjones: Lindsay Wagner as Nikki? Ben Silverman as himself, I'd imagine. Nikki would drool at the thought of reporting the box office on her own biopic, only to to be disappointed when it goes straight to Starz. #nikkifinke
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cpjones
10/30/09

@BicycleShed: Maybe make it a soft core porn starring Tanya Roberts to premiere on a Wednesday night at 2 am on Cinemax instead? You could probably stitll get Silverman, he needs the work. #nikkifinke
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AngryPyros
10/29/09

In reply to Why Nikki Finke Never Makes a Mistake
I enjoy Deadline and read it daily -- it is, without a doubt, the best story for Hollywood news.

However, Finke's brand of silently correcting stories when she is wrong and attacking others when they're wrong makes it increasingly difficult to take the site seriously as a source of journalism. I know that she works hard and often gets the scoop, but tricks like these harm her credibility and move Deadline.com into the 'blogger' category. #nikkifinke
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Cynical Media Bitch
10/29/09

@AngryPyros: She has a work ethic that puts most members of the Fourth Estate to shame, but unfortunately, you're right: her habit of inline edits after post time is the worst kind of Fifth Estate shenanigans.
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Edited by Cynical Media Bitch at 10/29/09 4:59 PM

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