{"id":460,"date":"2007-07-12T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T05:56:27","slug":"celebrity-journalism-as-contact-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Journalism as Contact Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/13\/movies\/13inte.html?8dpc\">Manohla Dargis writes this movie review in The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You don&rsquo;t need to buy Ms. Malcolm&rsquo;s take on the reporter-subject relationship (&ldquo;Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible&rdquo;) or, for that matter, <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/gst\/movies\/filmography.html?p_id=177354&amp;inline=nyt-per\">Joan Didion<\/a>&rsquo;s (&ldquo;Writers are always selling somebody out&rdquo;) to grasp the more unsavory aspects of this kind of exchange. No matter how principled, journalists use other people &mdash; for information, inspiration, personal gain and the greater good &mdash; which means they&rsquo;re like anyone else who navigates social relationships for a living, including, of course, actors. The screenplay for &ldquo;Interview&rdquo; acknowledges as much, even if Mr. Buscemi and his co-writer, David Schechter, also play definite favorites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manohla Dargis writes this movie review in The New York Times: You don&rsquo;t need to buy Ms. Malcolm&rsquo;s take on the reporter-subject relationship (&ldquo;Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}