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Moviefone’s ‘Girl’s Guide To The Avengers’ full of WTF (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, May 02, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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celeb news of the week: Steven Soderbergh does some second-unit shooting on ‘The Hunger Games’ (but he hopes you won’t notice it)

Sun, Sep 11, 2011
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Since when do big-name celebrity hotshots take on a job that is usually thankless and typically invisible? When they’re nice guys helping out a pal.

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AOL/HuffPo shoots the messenger, fires Moviefone editor Patricia Chui over work-for-free email

Thu, Apr 07, 2011
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And the AOL/HuffPo Cinematical fiasco comes full circle in the only way it could have: with a scapegoating…

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AOL/HuffPo to movie journos: You’re fired, unless you want to write for free

Wed, Apr 06, 2011
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AOL/HuffPo values the voices and input of its writers… just not enough to pay them. So please do continue to do the excellent work you’ve been doing, Cinematical and Moviefone writers, just don’t expect to get paid for it. *grrr*

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my outrage over the TechCrunch AOL ‘Source Code’ mess (aka: this is why we can’t have nice things)

Sat, Mar 19, 2011
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Or, Why not to be a whore for the studios, even though lots and lots of folks are doing it.

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