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November 29, 2005
A New Level Of Arrogance
All I can say is, "Wow!"
Slandered by Patrick Goldstein in the morning... the attacking paper wanting free content for their effort in the afternoon.
The e-mail....
-----Original Message-----
From: Rushfield, Richard
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:09 PM
To: Rushfield, Richard
Subject: Your response sought
Dear Blogger,
As you may have seen, this morning the LA Times Calendar Section published a piece by columnist Patrick Goldstein taking on the phenomenon of online Oscar prognostication and the effect of blogs and the web rumor mill on entertainment coverage at large. You can read the full piece here:
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/movies/env-et-goldstein29nov29,0,2796255.story?coll=env-home-headlines
The Envelope, the Times' awards site, would like to open up the debate on this question and invite you to respond to the Goldstein column. Over the next few days, we will feature on The Envelope site the responses of prominent bloggers and online entertainment reporters to the column.
If you would like to join the debate, please send your response to me at this address and we will post them quickly. Hope you can weigh in and share with us your perspective and experience on this issue. But please, as we are still a family corner of the internet, we'll have to ask you to check any profanity at the door.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Richard Rushfield
Senior Editor
latimes.com"
Breathtaking. The first thing that actually generates any attention for The Envelope is a piece attacking everyone else. Think of the journalistic significance of that. The only thing left to build the LA Times film coverage on is bitter rage and the subsequent aftermath. Worthy of Karl Rove.
I will not be participating. I have said my share. And any discussion about whether the awards season has gotten out of hand will be on my own terms, not in response to Patrick Goldstein's blathering.
But then again, Jeffrey Wells is already basking in the glow of being called "The Lewis Black of Oscar Blogging" and Tom O'Neil is sending out links to Goldstein and his lame response under the subject line, "OSCAR BLOGGERS BITCH FIGHT!"
Can we get any lower?
Posted by poland at November 29, 2005 02:22 PM
Comments
"Can we get any lower?"
I feel confident in asserting that we will know the answer to that question sooner rather than later.
Posted by: Blackcloud ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at November 29, 2005 02:43 PM
Hmm. Should I be upset I didn't get such an arrogant email?
(As I said in my own response - I just hope Goldstein loses my email address.)
Posted by: tapley at November 29, 2005 02:52 PM
Hee. "Oscar Bloggers Bitch Fight."
Posted by: James Leer at November 29, 2005 02:57 PM
LOL.
They got some balls. But I guess that is how they operate there.
Posted by: PandaBear at November 29, 2005 02:58 PM
Did Goldstein have to look up what "blogging" meant?
Out of touch.
Posted by: Angelus21 at November 29, 2005 02:59 PM
Why do they have to solicit responses to something so blatantly terrible?
Why not link up Dave's response and his website? Or is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Josh at November 29, 2005 03:08 PM
Tom O'Neil. Can you get lamer?
Posted by: joefitz84 at November 29, 2005 03:25 PM
"Hmm. Should I be upset I didn't get such an arrogant email?"
Ha. Nevermind. It went to my junk folder. Tehe.
Posted by: tapley at November 29, 2005 03:54 PM
The word "clueless" comes to mind.
Posted by: Bruce at November 29, 2005 04:11 PM
"Ha. Nevermind. It went to my junk folder. Tehe."
If I were Mickey Kaus, I'd say, "And so did the rest of the paper." But I'm not, so I won't.
Posted by: Blackcloud at November 29, 2005 04:33 PM
Fine, I'll say it. I trashed the rest of the paper.
Posted by: Sanchez at November 29, 2005 04:43 PM
I stand corrected: Mickey Kaus has commented on Goldstein's article. As Kaus might say, "At least Goldstein's only covering the Hollywood beat, it's not as if that's important in L.A. or anything."
http://www.slate.com/id/2131180/
You have to scroll down a bit, it's the second post after the long one on Bob Woodward.
Posted by: Blackcloud at November 29, 2005 11:24 PM
u think this guy feels a tad threatened on his little old perch?
Posted by: bicycle bob at November 30, 2005 06:13 AM
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