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embargo hell

journalmalism caused the Manti Te’o fiasco (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jan 18, 2013
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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why media embargoes are a buzzkill (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Dec 13, 2012
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what Batman thinks about (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Aug 01, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: What could Fox have possibly done to the remastered Chariots of Fire that would warrant a review embargo?

Tue, May 01, 2012
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Does Nick Fury show up in a new postcredits tag scene attempting to recruit Olympic runners Harry Abrahams and Eric Liddell for his Avengers Initiative: Time Tunnel?

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why sad movies makes people happy (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Apr 16, 2012
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Ghost Rider enacts spirit of vengeance upon critics

Tue, Feb 14, 2012
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There was a press screening here in London yesterday morning, and I had planned to attend… until I received an email from the publicist specifically informing me that I would not be admitted if I showed up.

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David Fincher on David Denby’s ‘Dragon Tattoo’ embargo breakage

Thu, Dec 08, 2011
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director David Fincher responds to New Yorker critic David Denby’s brazen flouting of the review embargo Sony had in place for the film. I have a few issues…

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question of the day: Can the year-end awards-baiting movie madness ever be changed (even if David Denby can’t make it happen himself)?

Mon, Dec 05, 2011
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It’s probably not helping that even venerable institutions such as the New York Film Critics Circle and The New Yorker are now engaging in ridiculous fanboy First! shenanigans.

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more embargo idiocy: ‘Cars 2’

Sun, Jun 26, 2011
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No one in the UK go look at reviews coming out of North America, okay? All youse guys must wait for the end of July before you may read reviews. Thank you.

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more embargo idiocy (re ‘Bad Teacher’)

Mon, Jun 20, 2011
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I started to think Sony, at least, was beginning to get it. But apparently not…

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