Wrote Nikki Finke, in 2007, saying she doesn't "get all aflutter at the mere mention of the Park City film festival like some media, quoted in "Nikki Finke, Caustic Hollywood Chronicler, Is Dead at 68/At newspapers and then at Deadline, the website she founded, she served up the opposite of fluff entertainment journalism" (NYT).
Another quote: "I am a very old-school journalist. I believe you make the comfortable uncomfortable, and that’s the whole point of doing it."
She was evoking the old saying: "The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
Evoking half of it anyway. She didn't seem interested in comforting anyone.
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Perhaps she estimated all she needed to do to comfort the afflicted was by afflicting the comfortable.
Most people find Shadenfraude comforting. John Dunne would call it empty calories for the starving.
Can we get back to the job of newspapers and journalists to be to factually tell the truth. This afflict the comfortable thing is getting old. It’s too ambiguous and it’s unfair. It’s like now the job of the courts is to represent “the people”. How about the courts just decide cases based upon law? Can we start doing those things again please?
I promise this is related to the saying under discussion - though not to the journalist herself.
Last night my husband and I were checking out Bar Rescue to see what it was like, and at one point a server got fired, on camera, for having been eating while on shift during the soft open. My husband was furious - not that the guy got fired, but that he was used as a prop for dramatic effect and could suffer greater consequences than if it had been done off camera and without showing who the offending server was. If the guy had been well compensated for appearing, said my husband, it would have been different, but instead he was just collateral damage.
I disagreed. I said the guy had his own choices to make. Yes, the manager had set a bad example by, himself, eating (actually in front of customers, which the server didn't), but the server should have been able to realize that this wasn't something HE could do. And he knew the cameras were rolling and the show was being produced. Getting fired on camera might - *might*, if a future hiring person recognized him from the show - have greater consequences for him than just getting fired, but it doesn't sound as if good service is his jam anyway.
My husband wanted to comfort the afflicted; I believed that this afflicted person had afflicted himself.
When was that, Jeff's Revenge? Yellow Journalism muckraking tabloid broadsheets and the like have been around since way before the Babylon and Sphinx days. Fistfights in Congress is so 19ths Century. History starts in 2016 for YOU PEOPLE.
Evoking half of it anyway. She didn't seem interested in comforting anyone.
People don't want comfort from journalists. They want the truth.
She writes for the NYT's so that says everything we need to know about her.
She didn't seem interested in comforting anyone.
No need. In her audience and sphere of influence about 82% of the people are employed to comfort the perpetually "afflicted" stars and wannabees. What other industry does job interviews on a casting couch? And employs actual fluffers and handlers?
RIP Nikki!
Maybe the edge was in recognizing the self-loathing the stupidly rich practice on themselves. Find the richest dumbest narcissists, mock them artfully in print, publish the results, and build the brand of Nikki Finke. Worked for her. We're reading the obit, so there's that.
Howard- all of that was before journalism became a priesthood as it is now. Back then it was a trade open to anyone. You are too close to the problem to see the problem.
Yes journalism was pugnacious before but it did not have a hive mind like it has now. Yellow journalism existed on both sides of the spectrum and newspapers openly represented a political constituency. However, even them local news was usually straight. It was rough and tumble but no one side dominated.
Now it is the exclusive domain of status seeking, over educated. second generation wealth simpletons who demand a single perspective and voice. It's been that way at least since Reagan but more obviously since Bush 2. There is a large difference between the give and take among differing voices that you mention and the singular voice focused on only one message that exists now.
Sadly, you don't happen to see that because you approve of the message, no matter how wrong history has shown it to be.
That is one of the stupidest sayings ever.
How is it the job of journalists to 'comfort' anyone?
How do they do that?
Do the 'afflicted' eat words and house themselves in newspaper mansions?
Why should the 'comfortable' be afflicted?
Just because they are comfortable and have done well in life?
Only in the democrat party is that a crime.
Work hard, save your money, and you're suddenly John Dillinger.
She was a nasty old crank who said vile, unfounded things about comedians.
Finke is someone I haven't thought about in a long time. RIP.
A job half done is best not done at all.
In 2009, her newspaper "Deadline Hollywood" was purchased by Jay Penske. Finke often quarreled with Penske, particularly after his purchase of the Deadline rivals. She departed the site in 2013 after months of public acrimony, but remained under contract as a consultant. "He tried to buy my silence," Finke wrote at the time. "No sale."
I noticed the obits on various sites are full of talk about how "vicious" and "Mean" she could be. WHich is just another way of saying she applied to the same standard to Hollywood that the liberal/left MSM uses toward everyone else.
Hollywood execs can't take criticism. If you attack them, they'll claim you're an antisemite or homophobe, or a Trogledyte righwinger, or a "Mean-spirited person" who "hates movies/TV/etc".
"Howard- all of that was before journalism became a priesthood as it is now. Back then it was a trade open to anyone. You are too close to the problem to see the problem."
'Journalism' is for dummies and low-IQ propagandists on both sides of the aisle.
There are very few people doing actual, original, meaningful reporting.
They repackage press releases from the DNC/RNC and call it a day.
Even worse, they write stories referencing other reporting; 'The NYT reported today that...'
Lazy.
She had disappeared from view because she fell out with bosses at Penske Media after selling them her company, the only situation where California recognizes non-competes. She probably got a great apartment out of the transaction, but otherwise I assume she regretted the sale.
"She writes for the NYT's so that says everything we need to know about her."
One thing we need to know about you, though, is you don't read carefully before rejecting a person.
"A job half done is best not done at all."
Seems to me, her definition, picking half, is a much better definition of the job. The job, as she defined it for herself, was completely done, not half done.
I'd rather have a journalist 100% making comfortable people uncomfortable than one who did that 50% of the time and spent the other 50% of her time comforting some people who are uncomfortable.
Journalism has never been more open to anyone with access to computer for worldwide distribution Jefferson's revenge. Once again you are typically hysterical catastrophism due to likely a very low testosterone level spawned by over consumption of fast food triggering metabolic disorder.
The job have done trope paraded out by Questar the grammar police cuck it's never been broke down on the road in the middle of nowhere we're a job quarter of the way done can get you to a service station it's like a god-given miracle. Don't you remember the old days when cars used to break down all the time and we didn't have cell service? What's that tired of those cliche about perfection being the enemy of the good?
'I'd rather have a journalist 100% making comfortable people uncomfortable than one who did that 50% of the time and spent the other 50% of her time comforting some people who are uncomfortable.'
Again, why is it the job of journalism to make comfortable people uncomfortable?
I'm comfortable, and got that way by working hard and paying my taxes.
Their job is to report the fucking news.
“I'd rather have a journalist 100% making comfortable people uncomfortable than one who did that 50% of the time and spent the other 50% of her time comforting some people who are uncomfortable.”
Modern “journalists”. Spend 100% of their time making themselves comfortable; money, sex, sex abuse, and self aggrandizement.
Idle capital seeking a purpose.
Isn't entertainment news by definition "fluff"? Hollywood takes itself very seriously, but nobody else does.
Just the sort of personality to cut through all of the Hollyweird bullschiff and self-serving delusions. RIP.
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