Paramount Denial Leads to Immaculate Re-Conception of Variety Headline
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the digital journalism playbook. Adjust the headline without letting readers know that such an adjustment has been made.
At press time, there is no Editor’s Note or Correction to indicate that a March 17 item by Variety New York film editor Ramin Setoodeh was originally headlined “Pope Cancels Tentative ‘Noah’ Meeting With Russell Crowe (EXCLUSIVE).” From a related report in The Hollywood Reporter:
Although Crowe had hoped to meet Pope Francis at the Pontiff’s weekly gathering in St.
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