Why Hollywood Doesn’t Read LATimes.com

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• Nikki, you always have the best posts with eye catching headlines and the most comment worthy entries. Easy to spot your work out of the rest. Keep up the standard!

  Comment by Mr. B — Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 12:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• how about posting those other comments that disagree with your POV on this? i know it’s your sandbox, but as a ‘news site’ you should at least attempt to maintain some level of neutrality.

  Comment by censors — Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 12:25pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree. I’ve written several posts pointing out errors or posing respectful questions and criticisms of some of the journalistic practices of Deadline, and they never ever EVER get posted.

    I also understand this is basically Nikki’s blog and she can do whatever she wants, but it’s also clear she’s aspiring more and more to be a respectable news entity. As such the site should be able to air out honest criticisms and different opinions.

    Comment by Well Put — Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 9:33am PST  Reply to this post

• Has the Times ever been a news-source for Hollywood? Seems like this is a 50 year old swipe to Variety / THR.

  Comment by Wish My Name Was Shazam — Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 1:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• They don’t have to read the L.A. Times?

  That only pertains to agents who are too busy stealing scripts out of the recycle bin and reading them for ideas to pilfer. It takes some time, you know, but it pays well.

  Now, how can they make millions of dollars by reading the Times? Time is money and some agents know all too well that it pays better to read what’s in the recycle bin and that they can share what they read in the recycle bin with other agents and leave no traces of “access.”

  They can recycle what they read onto blank pages and put their own name on it, or rather, the names of a hired hack.

  Recycled scripts are community property, you see. Communism is all about stealing, er, recycling. That way, one can leech off of, uh, feed off of, uh share the hard work of others.

  Sharing, that’s the word.

  Comment by Hollywood Molechs — Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 8:19am PST  Reply to this post

• i think pretty much most of the entertainment sections are all for the big hit. they don’t even care to bother the source. so i don’t even believe everything or care what they say. too many shallow, hungry and self – absorbed folks out there. same thing with televisions, most are pure garbage. i like to think barbara walter as a kind of decent person ,but when she brought out the topic on her sitcom, the view or women’s view. it was an unfounded rumour from newyork post,again riding jolie’s name. i think it was about vanessa demanding depp not to do a shower scene w/ jolie,for fear of the same fate as aniston.all these so-called view women are laughing when sherry made fun of jolie. i was completely turn off, when sherry,bertinelli,hasselbeck,behar and barbara herself was laughing, they thought it was funny. for me the view is for women to tattle tale, catty and feeling they are better than thou. seems to me this show give me a glimpse that these women are insecure and are afraid of strong women. they’re like sorority girls high fiving each other. that’s why i can’t stand the view. it’s good for lisa ling to leave that show, it’s a joke. i like brooke anderson from cnn, and she was right there’s a lot of shallow people in this world and some of them are right there in hollywood. that’s why we have so much reality show, people loves to see others dirty laundry.

  Comment by kc — Friday December 10, 2010 @ 5:15am PST  Reply to this post