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2021-03-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Golden Globes Former President Admits the HFPA Hasn't Had Any Black Members in Two Decades

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[Variety] However, the membership criteria and qualifications make the mission of seeking diverse membership difficult. On the Golden Globes website, the instructions for new member applications reads in part:

Applicants should be working Southern California-based journalists covering the entertainment industry for a legitimate foreign publication and must be sponsored by two current HFPA members. Applicants are required to submit 24 sample clippings of their work from the last 3 years. They also have to have been listed in the MPAA directory of journalists for the past two years.

For a foreign journalist based in Los Angeles, building relationships with this small group, which are largely unknown to the public, is difficult due to its tight and exclusive membership policies. More transparency would help alleviate the public perception that the group doesn’t seek to be inclusive.

On Friday afternoon, the activist organization Time’s Up tweeted a photo with the hashtag #TimesUpGlobes. Presenter Sterling K. Brown also posted the Time’s Up photo, saying "For any governing body of a current Hollywood award show to have such a lack of voting representation illustrates a level of irresponsibility that should not be ignored."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-01 02:46|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 Criteria, qualifications, standards? How utterly racist.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-01 02:53|| 2021-03-01 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 ^It's either that, or admit that "equality [of ability]" is a false theory.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-01 03:14|| 2021-03-01 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 How about a breakdown of all ethnic backgrounds of membership?

Posted by Airandee 2021-03-01 06:31|| 2021-03-01 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4

Just another example of Hollywood & Media applying:

Do as we say, not as we do.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-03-01 06:43|| 2021-03-01 06:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee... it is almost as if they are all racist hypocrites.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-01 10:39|| 2021-03-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 'Equality' as a tool, not as a goal.

These award shows are product placement and advertising. Brand Building.

Wasn't it a couple years ago some movie won best picture before it was released?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-01 13:34|| 2021-03-01 13:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Wasn't it a couple years ago some movie won best picture before it was released?

I believe you're thinking about Oblahblah's Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by Frank G 2021-03-01 14:41|| 2021-03-01 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Another reason to turn away from Hollywood shite.

Create our own alternative entertainment culture. Ignore the stupid shitty Woke drivel emanating from the hollyweirders

Posted by Gomez Grinens7216 2021-03-01 14:44|| 2021-03-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually Nomadland (which just one I think) is a very good, very mature movie about things I personally know about. I don't agree with every word spoken in it, but it's quite good.

Posted by Secret Master 2021-03-01 18:04|| 2021-03-01 18:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Tempest in a teapot.

In fact, the organization hadn’t had a Black member since at least 2002, when former HFPA president and board chair Meher Tatna joined.

Ms Tatna is from Mumbai, India. Looking at her photos, she has the the paler skin tone they prize over there, not the darker tones of south India or Bangladesh, nor anything we in America would think of as Black.

As for why, when she was president of the organization, she did not go out and find sub-Saharan journalists to invite to join the organization — beyond insularity and possible bigotry on her part — one must ask how many Third World news organizations can afford to finance a reporter living in Los Angeles to cover the entertainment beat instead of picking up the occasional story from the various newswires that supply most of the rest of their foreign reporting (and part of their domestic reporting as well, in some cases): AP, Reuters, AFP, and RT.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-01 20:00|| 2021-03-01 20:00|| Front Page Top

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