I’ve been hanging on to these e-mails for almost a year, wondering if there would ever be a good time (and a good reason) to post them. And now there is!

This takes us all the way back to my first contact with Tim Nasson last August. Enjoy!

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On Aug. 7, 2006, I posted a blog entry detailing the appalling journalistic tactics of one Tim Nasson, of Wild About Movies. Essentially, he was writing articles full of celebrities’ “quotes,” except they weren’t actual direct quotes. They were paraphrases (often with erroneous details) around which he had slapped quotation marks. And you can’t DO that in professional journalism, not even entertainment journalism.

I had brought the situation to his attention privately, but he dismissed my claims and ignored me thereafter. So I posted the blog entry exposing him to the world (well, to the parts of the world that visit my website). This resulted in a lengthy, hilarious exchange of e-mails between us….

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My last post was about Tim Nasson of Wild About Movies and his “Movie Junkets Exposed” feature. Somehow I missed that at the end of that piece, he has a few paragraphs about me! I could have sworn the feature originally ended after the part about Sony, and that the stuff about me was a later addition. Maybe it was. Doesn’t matter.

Anyway, here’s what he says!

A ‘one time junketeer,’ whom will not be named, that attended a junket during the summer of 2006 in Seattle, WA, threatened to ‘expose’ Wild About Movies as a site publishing ‘fake interviews.’ While we will not be giving this sniveling creature’s name any publicity, suffice it to say, every movie studio banned him not only from junkets, but also, press screenings because he wrote about the one junket he attended in such a way that he seemed to be a complete psychopath.

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Last August, I told you about Tim Nasson, a movie junketeer and entertainment writer who had been engaging in some fishy journalistic practices by making up celebrity quotes. He would take what the people actually said, paraphrase it into his own words — and then still put quotation marks around it, as if it were their actual words. That’s a no-no, and I called him on it. Hooray for me.

Nasson, whose site is called Wild About Movies, has now moved on to a different violation. He’s quoting people accurately now — a little too accurately, considering he’s using interviews that he didn’t actually attend.

He says the studios will sometimes send tapes to junket whores like himself who couldn’t attend (or who weren’t invited). That claim is still awaiting independent verification, but even if it’s true, it doesn’t explain why Nasson starts the articles by claiming he met with the interviewee in person. If you weren’t there, why lie to the reader and say you were? In fact, why run the interview at all when the exact same interview can be found on the sites of all the people who WERE there?

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