Writing Thursday evening at his e-newsletter web site Standing, conservative media Benedict Arnold and former senior CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy threw a match over the corporate now overseeing the Golden Globes – Jay Penske’s Penske Media Firm (PMC) – permitting conservative and different non-liberal podcasters like Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson to be eligible for a brand new class for greatest podcast.
Darcy has not solely been paddling the wrestle boat over that, however the prospect of stated podcasters being allowed to bask in “expensive packages to spice up their Golden Globe prospects—an awards present he additionally owns.”
All this, Darcy insists, has “despatched shockwaves via his newsrooms, Standing has realized, reverberating throughout the assorted Hollywood commerce publications that he owns and prompting inner concern that was communicated to senior editors.”
Earth to Darcy: Have you ever not heard of large publicity campaigns motion pictures and exhibits push out on TV, socials, and even in print newspapers like The New York Occasions for exhibits like The Oscars?
He defined not solely is a “pay-to-play” scheme troubling, however that stated “poisonous right-wing figures” on the shortlist can be allowed to foyer the roughly 300 leisure reporters who vote on the Golden Globes (and changed the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation) and stated lobbying efforts costing $75,000 (click on “increase”):
Based on a pitch deck Standing obtained, the $75,000 bundle features a “Selection Artistic Influence Award” and a characteristic story throughout Selection’s journal, web site, and social channels. It additionally comes with an onstage award presentation at a PMC occasion. In different phrases, poisonous right-wing figures pays to be showered in optimistic protection.
Suffice to say, the pay-to-play provide has not sat properly with the publication’s employees— and the discontent has radiated throughout the broader PMC universe…Colleagues at sister shops like The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline had been equally unsettled, viewing the scheme as yet one more occasion that undermined the integrity of the corporate’s journalism.
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It’s laborious to see any principled journalist eager to affiliate their byline with the pay-to-play program.
As one particular person informed Standing, “If that podcast bundle is offered, what journalist goes to write down a characteristic about Tucker Carlson, realizing that he purchased it himself?”
Darcy has been railing about this for practically a month. Again on October 20, Darcy reacted to the Penske Media Company’s preliminary “slate of 25 podcasts eligible for the brand new honor” that Globes boss Helen Hoehne celebrated as embodying “the unbelievable depth, range and creativity thriving within the podcasting world in the present day.”
However as a result of they included Rogan, Kelly, Von, Carlson, and Owens, such consideration on a two-dozen-plus listing was proof the corporate wished to platform “poisonous figures” “who spend their days radicalizing audiences and inflaming the tradition wars.”
