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The article about DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com by NYT media columnist David Carr for Friday is online. It claims I’m “thuggish”. So thug this: I’ll be back to work on Monday.
UPDATE: Interesting commentary on the piece by FAIR (Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting) here.
2ND UPDATE: The article has several errors. This is the most glaring: When I began my website in March 2006, I had not “run low on money and options” as Carr claims. Just the opposite. I had been an award-winning columnist with LA Weekly for four years. 2002 is when my career hit the skids, the year I sued Disney, News Corp, and the New York Post to fight for a journalist’s freedom to write accurately about the business and advertising partners of Big Media.
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Just read it! Wow, Carr moves the narrative of the Legend of Nikki Finke along quite nicely. Congrats.
full disclosure: it also claims you’re a hermet…(but hey, i’m fucking reading…)
Heh-heh-heh—-me & Louis B. are having a great laugh about this here in Hell!
From the NY Times article:
“I’d prefer not to ever deal with her,” said a senior communications executive at a studio who declined to be identified. Many others declined comment saying, variously, “she gave me a nervous breakdown,” “she terrifies me,” and “there’s no percentage in me saying anything to you about Nikki no matter what it is.”
What’s that, Louis B? What’s a “senior communications executive”? Why, that’s a ____________”
Oh come on, you hotshot readers of Deadline Hollywood, fill in the blank!
You GO Nikki!
if there’s one thing i think of one someone mentions niki finke hollywood blogger/journalist – it’s thug
that’s hysterical – also when i think of nyt i think bankrupt
Thug life!
Thuggish = Unafraid.
Apparently there are many un-thuggish folks where you’re concerned, Nikki.
Congratulations.
You can thug me any night of the week, Nikki.
very impressed with the ink spilled at NYT and how fast you link to it. Do you ever sleep, Madam? Congrats.
If they ain’t talking about you, you ain’t important. You keep me pointed in the right direction. F**k them. Keep doing what you do. Hollywood needs you.
Love your brass, Nikki – can’t wait to see what’s next!
Congrats, Nikki. You may have just helped turn “thug” into a verb.
You rock
So you’re making millions from this site? You just lost a visitor.
“Thug on this (making an obscene gesture), New York Times!”
I thought it was quite flattering.
Yeah, baby! Keep on thuggin’!
Reminds me of the old Bernie Brillstein quote, “You’re No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead”. Way to go, Nikki!
hey – wussies, so terrified of Nikki Finke and her truth telling powers – if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the hollywood kitchen. or better yet, behave better to those around you. being an asshole is a choice we all make, or not. and when you choose asshole behavior, you know know that the “thug” is watching…
Is it better to be feared or loved?
congrats from that guy it’s a compliment.
Nikki is about as “thuggish” as Pinch Sulzburger getting ready to mud-wrestle Carlos Slim for future control of the New York Times…
Nice article about a fearless journalist and an invaluable resource to many of us – congrats!
Thug for life!
Tupac would be proud.
Cheers!
Reporters are boring anyways. Thugs get shit done. Keep getting shit done Nikki… <3
Hey! Is that a new picture? Niiice.
Being called a ‘thug’ in a once venerated newspaper that of late can’t seem to do the due dilligence to prevent itself from hiring charlatan fiction writers who pass themselves off as journalists is a big complement. I sense there’s more than a little envy going on there at the old Grey Lady.
Having listened in on a phone press conference (regarding the MPTF home closure) and hearing for myself Katzenberg’s voice shrieking in high holy freakout mode because Nikki Finke asked him real serious thoughtful journalist questions (like ‘isn’t there more to this MPTF story than what you’re telling us or why else would you be calling yet another press conference’) must be what the executives running their golden goose into the ground think is ‘thuggish’.
Given their penchant for not paying people (actors, writers, directors, crews, office employees) and now wanting to throw old folks onto the streets because they’re not aging ‘properly’ while they themselves live increasingly like a cross between Howard Hughes & Marie Antoinette, I say let the mogul-wannabees pee their pants as publically as possible. Someone has to call them out on their dumbassery so why not Nikki?
Keep bringing it Nikki. Good stuff here.