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SATURDAY AM UPDATE: It's getting to be quite a horse race as the "Time 100" finalists move up in the rankings race minute by minute. This hour, I'm still behind that wannabe, the Dalai Lama. Vote by moving the meter towards 100 and then clicking on "SUBMIT". Keep refreshing and keep voting..
FRIDAY AM: I'm honored and a little verklempt today to see that I'm included among "The 2008 Time 100 Finalists" whose names just went up on the magazine's website. So apparently the way this works is that you have to vote for me. OK, my campaign begins right now. Let's see if I can make it from the 207 finalists into the actual "Time 100". Understand, I've got pretty stiff competition: popes, kings, princes, heads of state, CEOs, rappers, superstar actors, politicians, Internet billionaires, as well as Judd Apatow and Rupert Murdoch and Patric Verrone. But do any of them give you the daily lowdown on the real business of Hollywood (or call Jeff Zucker a putz and Bob Shaye a prick)? Nah!
Here's what Time has to say about me:
PRO: Her well-sourced "Deadline Hollywood Daily" blog became the unofficial switchboard of the writer's strike: even the negotiators were reading it. And she may be the first industry blogger to get a shout-out on Letterman.
CON: Her blatantly pro-writer stance raised the perennial question about blogs: is "Deadline" journalism or advocacy?
And that's before Time has seen my next posts about SAG vs The Moguls. Remember, I'm counting on you to go to the polls: vote early and vote often.
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Congrats, you so deserve it. Without you, we wouldn’t have the truth about what was going on and for that, I will forever be grateful.
This is a real tough one. Vote for you or the guitar hero guys…
Hilarious that you are characterized as pro-writer. What you are is pro-truth. The writers were on the side of truth.
Let’s not forget who owns Time magazine.
And, congrats. Well deserved.
just voted for you Nikki – you fully deserve to be on the list as one of the few journalists with the guts and, to be fair, the ability (since you’re accountable to no-one) to speak truth to power !! go Nikki
You’re certainly one of the most influential people in Hollywood, everyone reads this blog. Vote early, vote often.
Happy to help! I think it’s very appropriate. And just one thing, journalism has not been unbiased in the US in years. Journalism has blatantly suffered from political and philosophical polarization since GWB, term 1.
Umm… this site is an excellent resource for us people who’s salaries are paid by the Hollywood machine, but I really have to worry about the state of the world when reading comments on this site that actually seem to think this page (or Finke) is one of the 100 most influential people on PLANET EARTH. I’d say it’s rather obvious Nikki has a sense of humor about this, but get over yourselves people… This is far from influential on any sort of important scale. Since half of you are frustrated writer’s who jumped on this blogs bandwagon about the time of the strike (and yes, this site was indeed rather unabashedly pro-strike, not that it matters), I’d suggest you read a little about the world at large, and try to understand how insignificant you, and this site are – in the grand scheme of things.
Congratulations, but I’d have to agree with the CON stated above – this is advocacy, not journalism. This blog owes its significance to the emergence of this new phenomenon of microscopic ‘minute-by-minute’ dispensing of ‘information.’
I would be less suspect of the information posted here were it done sans the ‘personal’ edge that tends to take over in the hurry of this digital day and age.
The tone that this hurry gives this blog is just another version of the variety of tones that plague mainstream infotainment – like Anderson Cooper’s ‘detached, shrugging-shoulders, don’t-know-what-to-think’ spin on the information he passes along.
(You know, the stuff he hears from you – but after you put your spin on it, of course.)
Please, keep the spirit of Ben Franklin in mind, and deliver the information with humility and in moderation, and above all – with patience.
Leave the EMOTION at the door, Nikki.
You got my vote at 100% It’s been the year of Nikki Finke and Diablo Cody.
Congratulations for breaking through. Usually the old media tries to ignore new media folks it can’t buy or doesn’t somehow already own, especially in show business.
You have my vote.
Congrats on being ahead of Miley Cyrus and the HSM cast. Too bad you’re far behind Mario Lavandeira!
Pinning you to the writers strike makes you sound like a one-hit-wonder. It was a story you covered — and covered extremely well — but the nomination should speak more to Nikki Finke as the best and most insightful (and passionate) journalist covering Hollywood, as you have been for years. Well done. I’ll vote for you even though the TIME cover story is beyond stupid.
Congrats Nikki! Oh by the way, did you see this weeks episode of South Park. Obviously Matt and Trey think the WGA deal was a bad deal. It was a spoof of the strike.
I cranked that thing to 100%
To the people who say this blog is pro-writer, do you likewise nail the media for being anti-writer?
Why don’t you people equally call the AMPTP skewed and anti-writer?
The entire 4th estate, all AMPTP owned outlets, was unabashedly biased and inaccurate during the strike, and those outlets are definitively journalistic outlets, and “trusted” ones at that.
DHD was the ONLY source of truth, and the sole resource to writers during the strike. You people make it sound like the writers had an unfair advantage during the strike. Ridiculous.
Me thinks AMPTP still has trolls on this site posting self-serving propaganda.
Chris, take your own advice. Chill the fuck out. It’s not a vote for the most world’s 100 most influential people. It’s a vote for Time’s 100 most influential people. It’s a pop culture listing where people like Tina Fey and Queen Elizabeth II can share accolades.
It’s not a vote for the Nobel Peace Prize, ferpetesake.
And since Time has separate lists of 100 for categories such as “Artists” “Leaders” “Scientists” et cetera, then there’s no question Nikki should be on there for 2008. Everyone reads Nikki’s blog in Hollywood.
I’m voting for you Nikki. You’re better than New Coke!
I love the site, but the Time 100 is a joke. All it is is a popularity contest that cheapens what’s supposed to be a news magazine. Do you really want to be lumped in with Perez Hilton? Some of these other options are equally ridiculous. Any list that has Vladimir Putin, Stephen Colbert, Michael Cera, and Ichiro on it together can’t be of any use. Time should leave this kind of thing to Entertainment Weekly.
As a journalist, Nikki, you are #1. Overall you are #3 behind Stephen Colbert and Ellen Page, still I love you.
Speaking of Ellen Page, did anybody see that very weak “con” Time gave her?
I’m not your friend, buddy
The short answer? No!
The long answer? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
I voted and posted a link to you on the times site via my webpages!
Congrats
Wish you well, Nikki, but someone was right saying Time should leave this stuff to Entertainment Weekly. Isn’t any media outlet interested in being a dignified, principled news source anymore?
This is silly – you can vote over and over
You just know Obama has his loser gang of bullies planted at computers, clicking his name over and over so he’ll seem more relevant as his poll numbers are rightfully softening.
Nikki I gave you my second highest vote. Sorry but you’re not better than Nelson Mandela.
Of course this thing is a farce. If any proof were needed it is that a Korean singer (Rain) that few people on this side of the Pacific has every heard of won last year’s voting and is so far ahead of this year’s voting that he’ll never be unseated. There is no way that mister Rain is more important or influential than the president of France, the King of Saudi Arabia, Steve Jobs or even our own dear Nikki. Don’t you love farce.
Their voting system is rigged, we tested it
Several of us voted for Clinton on different computers and the votes didn’t register
Meanwhile the rest of the system was working fine because Obama’s votes kept accumulating at the same time
Typical from Time Warner, parent of CNN, the 24/7 hate Hillary channel
I love that reporting the truth during the writer’s strike is somehow “pro-writer.” You do a great job and deserve to be in the top 100.
Time claims you’re around 53 years old. Is that true? Can you be over 50 and still have your first name end in an “i”? Whats the official ruling on that?
-Gary (but thinking of changing to “Gari.”)
Brent, I wouldn’t say that it was a farce but I am not sure that Rain would make this year’s list simply because there are more votes for him/them than any other person. Besides Time does cover more than just politics though it doesn’t go around shooting photos of actresses and actors just so we know that Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt have a pizza for lunch. No, Time goes around shooting photos of the Clintons and Obamas so we know what they had for lunch.
All Kidding aside, they do break their selection into five categories and while the international/entertainment side will not include Rain, it will be Chinese flavored while entertainment will be headlined by Patrick Verrone, Nikki Finke, Miley Cyrus, and Ellen Page with a nod to Britney Spears because the South Park guys blew off her head in a recent episode.
As for Ellen Page, here is the “Con” that time has written about her:
CON: Will Juno MacGuff prove so indelible a role, Page can’t shake it? Naw. In the upcoming Whip It!, for example, she’ll play a music-geek alternateen named Bliss Cavender. Total 180!
For the record, Page is a versatile actress regarding her other roles, from what I learned.
Wow, quite an honor. I must admit, as someone in the news business on the East Coast, I find myself borderline addicted to your site, Nikki. Kudos!
The size of your ego is mind-boggling.