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When LA Weekly’s Mike Penner / Christine Daniels story was on the GLAAD list
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → Every January the GLAAD Media Awards nominations roll out, and every January most outlets cover the film and TV slates and skip the print ones. The 2011 list is worth revisiting because the Los Angeles entries on it are a small…
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The LA Times editorial board on Manning at Quantico — and how the story ended
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive → In January 2011, the Los Angeles Times editorial board ran a piece calling attention to the detention conditions of the WikiLeaks source held at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. FishbowlLA’s pickup praised the editorial as belated but consequential. Then…
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When Deadline launched a Facebook game with Paramount — a 2011 cross-promo curio
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In July 2011 Deadline.com partnered with Paramount Digital Entertainment and Liquid Entertainment to launch a Facebook game letting players experience the equivalent of running a Hollywood studio. Then The pitch was a Facebook-platform game built around the studio-mogul fantasy genre —…
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When Nikki Finke replied to THR’s lawyers — and the trade war went legal
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2011) · Wayback archive → In the fall of 2011 the Variety / Deadline / Hollywood Reporter rivalry stopped being a column-mention skirmish and became a federal lawsuit. The opening salvo of the public phase was Nikki Finke posting her unredacted email response to Prometheus Global…
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Hailee Steinfeld at 14 — the True Grit launch and a career that has very much continued
By Cassidy Lee · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In December 2010, fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld — Thousand Oaks resident, newcomer star of the Coen brothers’ True Grit — was the awards-season story everyone in LA media was writing about. The FishbowlLA framing placed her in a small lineage: Keisha Castle-Hughes…
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The #MooreandMe Twitter pile-on — and what it told us about a platform that no longer exists
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → Before “platform pile-on” was a fixed phrase and before X stopped being Twitter, the December 2010 #MooreandMe campaign was the genre’s prototype: a hashtag aimed at two cable-left celebrities, a refusal to let them off the hook, and a public figure…
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The Hollywood Reporter brings in a Variety veteran as associate publisher
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer on FishbowlLA, 2010 The Hollywood Reporter’s 2010 reinvention was not only an editorial project. It was a business one — and that meant hiring on the sales side, too. Then In December 2010, FishbowlLA reported that Variety veteran Craig Hitchcock had signed on…
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The kilt-wearing Scotsman who crashed awards season with a camcorder
By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2010 One of FishbowlLA’s reliable pleasures was the small story about an outsider talking his way inside. In late 2010 that outsider was Douglas McFarlane, a London-based Scotsman with a day job in bank security and a tongue-in-cheek DVD to sell.…
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Gustavo Turner vs the LA Times on Echo Park — gentrification, anachronism, and a 2010 dust-up
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Pandora Young (2010) · Wayback archive → In early December 2010, LA Weekly music editor Gustavo Turner — a Los Feliz resident who knew the territory — published a sharp critique of a recent LA Times piece on Echo Park’s gentrification. He called the Times piece “an epically…
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Meghan Daum’s 2010 LA Times typhus columns — and what came next for her career
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2010) · Wayback archive → In late November 2010, LA Times columnist Meghan Daum used her column to disclose a near-fatal medical episode: what she’d thought was an ordinary flu virus had turned out to be murine typhus, transmitted via flea feces from backyard rodents. The…