The Media Interview

Nikki Finke posted this on her Deadline Hollywood blog on Thursday: I just confirmed that Sicko documentary creator Michael Moore was barred from making a scheduled media appearance inside the New York Stock Exchange today. His publicist says it was because he and a group of nurses intended to call for Wall Street investors and [...]

I just posted about the controversy surrounding the demand by Angelina Jolie’s lawyers that journalists sign a contract outlining the scope and rules of any interview with the star at the premiere of her latest movie A Mighty Heart. There’s another story here, though, about the way the media works. I cited a number of [...]

Angelina Jolie is being called a hypocrite by some media (for instance, here, here, and here) after she imposed strict limits on interviews during the June 13th premiere of A Mighty Heart, in which she plays the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Roger Friedman of Fox News blasted Jolie for what [...]

All recently released WWE wrestlers have been told that they are not allowed to do media interviews until their non-compete clauses expire. – on Wrestling Confidential, February 8, 2007

Finally had a chance to read through the lawsuit filed October 25th 2006 by Jane Pauley against the New York Times and DeWitt Publishing – thanks to The Smoking Gun for posting a copy of it online. I had read reports in the papers, but it’s nice to comment on something when you have access [...]

Wired News pulls the plug on stories which used faked interviews. Interesting to see how these fakes were caught using policies implemented following earlier fakery: In a phone conversation with Wired News editors, [journalist Philip] Chien had identified Ash as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Reached by phone [...]

Before leaving for holidays I was going to write a story about FEMA preventing journalists from interviewing residents of FEMA trailer parks built in the wake of Hurrican Katrina. On returning I found this encouraging item in The Advocate [Baton Rouge], July 26, 2006: FEMA announced Tuesday that it reversed a policy restricting media access [...]