{"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&#8217;s New Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/general\/deadline-hollywood\/the-hollywood-reporters-new-editor\/16924\/\">Nikki Finke writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;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&rsquo;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&rsquo; legendary type of journalism, which perpetuates show-biz spin and lies in order to prop up Hollywood&rsquo;s most powerful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Instead, the <em>Reporter<\/em>, like <em>Variety<\/em>, makes 50 percent of its revenue from those annoying congratulatory-type ads, and 40 percent from those laughable Academy Awards &ldquo;For Your Consideration&rdquo; blowjobs, part of the $50 million award-lobbying ad market long dominated by the trades &mdash; which <em>The New York Times<\/em> and <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> and now blogs are trying to infiltrate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Finke writes: &#8230;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&rsquo;s advertisers and always running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=607\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}