Variety Scribe Anne Thompson Responds To Bloggers And Their Trade Boycott

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:19:00 +0000

Part Three, (Four?) in the whole Bloggers Vs. Trades War. This time Anne Thompson weighs in and defends Variety’s position. And or at least weighs in on quotes Variety EIC Peter Bart gave to MTV about four weeks ago.

She cites the “300″ sequel news as being the last big altercation between bloggers and trades and as far as we can remember, that does seem to be the last flare-up there was.

To recap, story goes like this: Collider got an interview with “300” director Zack Snyder which they called, “Exclusive Zack Snyder Video Interview Backstage at Saturn Awards.” And the news of a “300” sequel was in the third graph.

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IESB Calls Variety A Nincompoop On Collider’s Behalf

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:24:00 +0000

IESB.net are calling out Variety again and this time calling them, “thieves,” over the “300” sequel/prequel news that they reported that Collider kinda beat them to first when they talked to director Zack Snyder. We’re actually giving this one to Variety, because Collider didn’t have the sense to call out their news in a headline and instead called their piece, the bland and uninformative, “Interview Backstage With Zack Snyder. ” Learn some editorial skills or shut up.

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Variety Scribe Anne Thompson Responds To Bloggers And Their Trade Boycott

IESB Calls Variety A Nincompoop On Collider’s Behalf