http://www.metafilter.com/tags/junket Posts tagged with 'junket' at MetaFilter. Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:22:58 -0800 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:22:58 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/53850/Whore%2DNo%2DMore <a href="http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/i-was-a-junket-whore">"I actually felt sick, just sick, about wasting so much studio money and being such a stinky, stinky junket whore."</a> Freelance writer <a href="http://www.ericdsnider.com/">Eric D. Snider</a> took up an offer to attend Paramount Studios' <cite>World Trade Center</cite> press junket, "being a whore just once to see what it was like." After he <a href="http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/i-was-a-junket-whore">spoke unkindly of the practice</a>—taking issue with how studios trade luxurious treatment for positive media coverage—<a href="http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2006/08/02/paramount-pictures-boo-hoo-some-writer-weve-never-heard-of-made-fun-of-us-boo-hoo-hoo/">the studio had him blacklisted</a> from all further Paramount screenings, and those of a few other studios. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53850 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:22:58 -0800 blog boohoo junket paramount press wtc Zozo