THB #221: The Non-Moral Problem With The Globes Return

Too much on awards this week…

I decided yesterday not to write about the moral grotesquerie of the return of The Golden Globes after they have spent the last 18 months playing the game of trying out new angles of self-legitimization, one after the other, until they could get NBC/Universal to rationalize putting the show on the air, even though the organization has become significantly less transparent, more self-dealing, and openly 100% FOR profit, including direct cash payments to members of just under $1500 a week for doing nothing more than voting for awards.

Not gonna get into that. (Well… I am. But I’m going to restrain myself from raging… as best I can.)

But reading the Variety coverage (without disclosure of its company’s relationship to HFPA, though I consider Michael Schneider a legit journalist) of the return, I was struck by how this deal was dangerous for The Academy, as it changes the current ecosystem.

The new deal is for one year. And you can be sure that the pricing is no…