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November 02, 2009
10th LA Film Critics Member To Lose Gig In The Last 18 Months
Out of 52 members, the organization now boasts just 11 writers with full-time jobs as film critics.
The "generous offer" note above was made by Fishbowl in response to the Facebook post.
Added Note, 4:47p - Carina Chocano, who joined the group just weeks before being fired by LAT, has apparently given up her slot. Her replacement, Betsey Sharkey, is not on the group's web site list of members and I don't know whether she applied for membership this summer or not. But Carina adds another number to the roster of those in the group who have lost their jobs in the last 18 months.
Posted by dpoland at November 2, 2009 01:47 PM
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Merry friggin' Thanksgiving.
If the usual pattern holds, they'll offer him freelance gigs at a fraction of the money.
Where is this improving economy I keep hearing about?
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at November 2, 2009 03:37 PM
This is really sad. I reviewed films for MSNBC.com for a while in the mid-1990s, and wrote several feature stories as well. The latter were great gigs: As I recall, MSNBC was tossing all sorts of money around at the time, and I got paid more for those features than I had for anything I'd ever written for any venue up to that point. Seriously. Compared to what I made from MSNBC.com, what I got for LA Times Sunday Calendar cover stories was chump change. (No disrespect intended to the LA Times folks, who were exceptionally fine people to deal with.) Little did I realize at the time that it was too good to last...
Posted by: Joe Leydon at November 2, 2009 03:51 PM
"I will pay you in beads, like the Native Americans."
Lol. What a way to add insult to injury.
Posted by: a_loco at November 2, 2009 03:58 PM
Yikes. I hope this doesn't hurt Dave White, critic for Movies.com and his partner, the best film critic out there.
Posted by: EthanG at November 4, 2009 10:18 AM
Wake me up when Ken Turan gets canned.
Posted by: KristenStewartIsAwesome at November 5, 2009 03:07 AM
Lex, this is a terrible fake alias.
Posted by: LYT at November 5, 2009 03:47 AM
(in high pitched voice...)
Whoooooooooooo's Lex?
Posted by: KristenStewartIsAwesome at November 5, 2009 03:56 AM
Ah, the thin end of the wedge. How useful you are.
Posted by: jeffmcm at November 5, 2009 10:26 AM
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