when people can’t take any dubious argument, shoehorn in a “death of traditional media” angle, and call it a day. That whole line of inquisition is becoming a meaningless, non-falsifiable feint.
Incidentally, the studio apparently thinks GI Joe did so much worse in its second week because of… bad reviews.
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I wonder to what extent they see “bad reviews” as a function of an independently operating media and to what extent they see it as a function of something that a reviewer writes after seeing a bad movie.Report