{"id":607,"date":"2007-08-01T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:53:40","slug":"the-hollywood-reporters-new-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikki Finke writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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…But Kilcullen made clear to everyone inside the biz that he was looking for a softball editor to maintain the status quo, which consists of reporters never asking pesky questions of the paper’s advertisers and always running press releases exactly as written. As a result, Guider is not the firebrand sort to even try to retool the trades’ legendary type of journalism, which perpetuates show-biz spin and lies in order to prop up Hollywood’s most powerful.<\/p>\n

…Instead, the Reporter<\/em>, like Variety<\/em>, makes 50 percent of its revenue from those annoying congratulatory-type ads, and 40 percent from those laughable Academy Awards “For Your Consideration” blowjobs, part of the $50 million award-lobbying ad market long dominated by the trades — which The New York Times<\/em> and Los Angeles Times<\/em> and now blogs are trying to infiltrate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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