For Your Consideration: The Emmys Have Taken Over Deadline, EW
Will Nikki Finke soon be furiously calling or emailing a graduate student in the state of Wisconsin? It’s quite possible given his Antenna article “Campaign Contributions: “Mainstreaming” the Emmy Race.”
Myles McNutt, a graduate student in media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a TV critic for Cultural Learnings/The A.V. Club, takes a look at how Deadline.com and Entertainment Weekly have increasingly surrendered their pages to veiled promotional Emmy season content:
Why is EW willing to become an outlet for what amount to puff-pieces designed to promote specific contenders? It’s likely the same reason Deadline is producing six AwardsLine print edition in the buildup to the Emmy Awards – in addition to their online coverage – that award voters can have sent directly to their door for free: by producing content related to the race for Emmy nominations and eventually an Emmy victory, and by explicitly aiming...
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