Comments on: Paramount Pictures: ‘Boo hoo! Some writer we’ve never heard of made fun of us! Boo hoo hoo!’ http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/ Eric D. Snider's blog. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Harvey Karten http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/#comment-1403 Harvey Karten Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:18:10 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/#comment-1403 Glad to hear that you'd leave your junket-whore article up even if Paramount agreed to reinstate you. Barring you from reviewing Paramouont's movies altogether is inappropriate, as you say. Glad to hear that you’d leave your junket-whore article up even if
Paramount agreed to reinstate you. Barring you from reviewing
Paramouont’s movies altogether is inappropriate, as you say.

]]> By: Michaela Stephens http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/#comment-307 Michaela Stephens Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:51:28 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/#comment-307 Good for you, sticking to your guns. I, for one, am pleased with you. (Not that you should care whether I'm pleased with your or not, because you don't know me and therefore don't know whether I'm someone worth pleasing.) Why am I pleased? Because it is good to hear that someone (you) has told their experience, and has passed it on to others, and they've refused to back down in the face of thinly-veiled gorrilla tactics. That isn't the only thing that pleases me. Not only did you refuse to back down, but you aren't concerned about the consequences. Instead of whining about the consequences as most people do, you laugh at them. (Sure, it's awfully close to the little boy who says "That didn't hurt!" when he's getting swatted with a wooden spoon, but doing it for the sake of the truth? Well, perhaps a different, better metaphor is needed. Too bad I don't know what it is.) It seems to me that the reason Paramount was so unhappy with your article was because of your frequent use of the terms "junket whore" throughout the article. (You may know this already.) I must say the term "junket whore" bothered me too, and I'm nowhere near associated with movie-making. However, I could see that you had a reason for doing it. It was your way of reminding yourself and your readers of what was really happening - movie studios buying the love of the press. Calling the spade a spade all the way through the process keeps you and others rom self-deception, and for that reason, it was appropriate. Again, good job. Good for you, sticking to your guns. I, for one, am pleased with you. (Not that you should care whether I’m pleased with your or not, because you don’t know me and therefore don’t know whether I’m someone worth pleasing.)

Why am I pleased? Because it is good to hear that someone (you) has told their experience, and has passed it on to others, and they’ve refused to back down in the face of thinly-veiled gorrilla tactics.

That isn’t the only thing that pleases me. Not only did you refuse to back down, but you aren’t concerned about the consequences. Instead of whining about the consequences as most people do, you laugh at them. (Sure, it’s awfully close to the little boy who says “That didn’t hurt!” when he’s getting swatted with a wooden spoon, but doing it for the sake of the truth? Well, perhaps a different, better metaphor is needed. Too bad I don’t know what it is.)

It seems to me that the reason Paramount was so unhappy with your article was because of your frequent use of the terms “junket whore” throughout the article. (You may know this already.) I must say the term “junket whore” bothered me too, and I’m nowhere near associated with movie-making. However, I could see that you had a reason for doing it. It was your way of reminding yourself and your readers of what was really happening - movie studios buying the love of the press. Calling the spade a spade all the way through the process keeps you and others rom self-deception, and for that reason, it was appropriate.

Again, good job.

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