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THB #274: How NYT's Brooks Barnes Spins Opinion Instead Of Doing Journalism

THB #274: How NYT's Brooks Barnes Spins Opinion Instead Of Doing Journalism

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Dec 11, 2022
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THB #274: How NYT's Brooks Barnes Spins Opinion Instead Of Doing Journalism
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“This is about more than money: Hollywood sees the shift as an affront to its identity. Film power players have long clung to the fantasy that the cultural world revolves around them, as if it were 1940. But that delusion is hard to sustain when their lone measuring stick — bodies in seats — reveals that the masses can’t be bothered to come watch the fi…

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