SCENE: INTERIOR, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION OFFICE, RUN-DOWN. MONDAY MORNING.

Executive Assistant: Hey, Brett?

Director: Morning, Jennifer. What have you got for me?

EA: Well, we have the opening weekend numbers.

D: And?

EA: They're ... mixed. There's some bright spots overseas. Australia did fifty.

D: Fifty million?

EA: Uh, no. Fifty. Fifty tickets.

D: All weekend? The whole country?

EA: Ya. I know.

D: You said there were some bright spots, though?

EA: That was a bright spot. It was worse elsewhere.

D: How can it be worse than 50 tickets for a whole country?

EA: Well, some open-source intelligence type people on the 'net proved that almost every single ticket sold in the UK was to a movie reviewer, because we wouldn't give them advanced access to it.

D: "Almost"? So at least a few regular folks bought tickets?

EA: ... maybe. Those were tickets where no-one showed at the theatre, so they couldn't determine if it was film critics or not.

D: Damn. How were the reviews?

EA: Uh, let's just say "not good" and leave it at that for a bit.

D: ... Okay. Well, how about here at home? Surely we sold some tickets here, at least in MAGA states? What's the news here in the good ol' USA?

EA: The Director's Guild took out a hit on you.

#Hollywood #HappyEnding #StoryTime #OnceUponATimeInMAGAstan #BoxOfficeBomb #sycophancy #Trump #Melania #MAGA #critic #FilmCritic #MovieCritic #BoxOffice #director #PuffPiece #USPol

“He jumped into his car and drove the 20 minutes to another mansion — this one owned by the billionaire Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East peace envoy.” - Wow.. impressive. Did anyone witness him jumping? Was it like a little hop or a big leap?

#puffpiece #brokenmedia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/jared-kushner-gaza-deal.html

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/school-bathroom-vape-detector-audio-bug/

PR firm necessary? 🤔😎 | @destiny

#Hasanabi #HasanPiker #NewYorkTimes #PuffPiece #Destiny

The New York Times had to censor the chat in a picture of Hasan's puff piece 😬 | @destiny

#NewYorkTimes #Censoring #PuffPiece #HasanPiker #Destiny

Dear #Newspapers,

It takes only one puff piece for me to ban you from my newsfeed.

Think carefully when you want to push bullshit.

Sincerely,
Your Autistic Life

#PuffPiece #ban #newsfeed #bullshit

Fluff piece:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/29/12-31-23-date-meaning/72042544007

Puff piece:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/12/29/barack-obama-favorite-songs-of-2023-list/72060884007

Guess what happened to USA Today?

Banned.

(I also suspended this bullshit fediverse account for good measure: [email protected].)

#USNews #USAToday #PuffPiece #FluffPiece #ban

CNBC has the distinction of being one of the first news outlets I'm kicking off of my Flipboard.

Why?

The stupid puff piece that I'm linking to below. I knew it was going to be a puff piece. I clicked on the headline, and, yep, it was a puff piece.

"Laundry pros on Poplin can earn up to $6,000 per month, according to the site."

Yep, I'm sure that this is a figure that the common man can expect. (I'm being sarcastic.)

In reality, Poplin might have a few folks looking at those earnings, but they like to trumpet it because poor sods will sign up to try to get that amount of money.

#USNews #PuffPiece #Flipboard #Poplin #sarcasm

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/20/how-to-start-side-hustle-as-house-helper.html

Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher #PuffPiece #oxfordcomma

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/us/desantis-high-school-teacher-georgia.html

2/2

Nancy's disabled son and his experiences have changed her perspective. I understand it is a subject that benefits from personal experience. But perhaps the story should have focused a bit more on what she could have been doing differently to help promote stories on disabilities during her lengthy career at the top of the important industry?
#disability #MissedOpportunity #journalismus #PuffPiece