HOLLYWOOD JOURNALISTS IN VERBAL DUEL
Thursday, November 27 2008
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A full-blown Hollywood blog war has broken out between journalists Nikki Finke, an apparent supporter of the Screen Actors Guild's bargaining strategy with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and Sharon Waxman, who has criticized it. At issue is Waxman's recent report that SAG officials recently held secret meetings with high-profile actors in a successful effort to persuade them to support a planned strike-authorization vote. On Wednesday, Finke reported that SAG had denied the story, that the meetings were "imaginary," and that Waxman had removed the story from her blog. Later, however, Waxman insisted that SAG had not denied the story, adding, "Nikki Finke saying the guild denies the story does not make it so." She also insisted that she had not deleted the story but had removed it briefly during the night to reedit it and had now reposted it. Waxman voices the suspicion that Finke's effort to debunk her story was intended to embarrass a fellow journalist and asks, "Is she a mouthpiece for SAG or an independent voice?" Meanwhile Los Angeles Times columnist Patrick Goldstein, whom Finke once called a "shill" for the producers, has weighed in on the dispute -- on Finke's side.
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