OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#1
Posted: 11/17/20 at 10:46pm
Do we think anything will come of this? They tweeted the following:
Screw it. Im done seeing Broadway powers protect Broadway predators.
We all know about The NY Times story that was squashed.
Were picking up where they left off and will publish what they wouldnt.
If anyone has any information, DM us, anonymity will be protected. #MeToo
https://twitter.com/onstageblog/status/1328877942672338945?s=21
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeTop Broadway Story#2
Posted: 11/17/20 at 11:11pm
Honestly? I admire the effort, but OnStage doesn't have the same clout (or quality reporting) as the New York Times and I don't have faith in them to do the story well. I hope they do, but their track record hasn't done much. Their story about Tyce a couple years ago was swept under the rug and mostly scrubbed from the internet; I don't know the behind the scenes details of that story or what led to its being removed from the site, but that ordeal doesn't make me think that this is the right outlet for this important, serious reporting. I do sincerely wish them success, though.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#3
Posted: 11/17/20 at 11:11pm
Fixed that subject line for you.
Anyway, I like a lot of what OnstageBlog is doing and wants to do, but oh holy heeeellllll do they need copy editor, not to mention a style guide — and if they already have the latter, they need an editor to enforce it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#6
Posted: 11/18/20 at 12:35am
OnStage Blog makes the BroadwayWorld message boards look like a Pulitzer-winning newsroom operation.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#7
Posted: 11/18/20 at 8:34am
The #MeToo movement is something incredibly important in moving our world forward, however, with the current state of affairs in the world, do you think it will create the "spark" that it would have during the "height" of it all?
Updated On: 11/18/20 at 08:34 AM
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#8
Posted: 11/18/20 at 9:46am
OnStage is an amateurish operation, run by and featuring folks who aren’t journalists or even particularly good writers. They lack the resources to do thorough fact checking, their posts are often overlong, unwieldy, and nakedly biased or trying to force a story.
An exposé like this requires a lot of work and skill and sensitivity, and frankly nothing they have done suggests they could successfully pull it off.
...to say nothing of the legal challenges they could face.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#9
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:02am
As it's been plainly stated by posters above me, OnStage Blog is trash. I wouldn't count on that blog for any bit of my information. It's run by attention-seeking amateurs hoping to get noticed by posting splashy controversial pieces without adequate research, evidence, or skill. If there is a theatre source out there that is going to pick up the NYT's work and expose the predators... this one ain't it.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#10
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:11am
They definitely need to get their act together. I was surprised at how positive this development seems to be received on Twitter vs. here, and by people I generally trust (on the former)!
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#11
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:14am
@LizzieCurry, can you point me in the direction of a positive reception on Twitter? I'm only seeing two .gif replies and two non-sequitur responses.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#12
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:19am
https://twitter.com/OnstageBlog/status/1328877942672338945/retweets/with_comments
A few others were on FB that I can't link to.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#13
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:41amVery few people in those replies get how journalism actually works. Sigh.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#14
Posted: 11/18/20 at 10:48am
An article like this is emblematic of the issues with OnStage. It seeks the answer to a reasonable question: why would Broadway producers and theater owners donate to far-right senator Roy Blunt? But the author apparently didn’t actually attempt to reach out to these people to get their rationale for doing so, it simply hammers the question over and over again while saying why they shouldn’t have. And then the sole comment on the article points out that Blunt is a key vote on the appropriations committee and would be needed for things like pension reform.
https://www.onstageblog.com/editorials/broadway-elites-donate-to-gop-senator
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#15
Posted: 11/18/20 at 11:14amI don’t think it’s a secret we have a media literacy issue in this country, and it ain’t just conservatives. The call is coming from inside the house, and it isn’t getting better
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#16
Posted: 11/18/20 at 11:40am
Kad said: "An article like this is emblematic of the issues with OnStage. It seeks the answer to a reasonable question: why would Broadway producers and theater owners donate to far-right senator Roy Blunt? But the author apparently didn’t actually attempt to reach out to these people to get their rationale for doing so, it simply hammers the question over and over again while saying why they shouldn’t have. And then the sole comment on the article points out that Blunt is a key vote on the appropriations committee and would be needed for things like pension reform."
This one is a near perfect emblem of the ignorance, naiveté, and lack of scholarship of that site. The fact is that Blunt is a key player for the Save Our Stages Act, which he has co-sponsored with Schumer et al. That's really all you need to know here to understand this. Now we can argue (as I would, vigorously) that we need to get ALL money out of politics, but until that happens, people pay for support of their issues and politicians lavish praise on their opponents when they find common ground. (This is as common for Bernie as it is for Biden, and an m.o. that is getting him compared with the positive attributes of LBJ.) The blog is so dumb they don't even see the forest for the trees.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#17
Posted: 11/18/20 at 12:19pm
It would be nice/better if something like American Theatre Magazine would pick this up.
https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/12/13/what-happens-after-metoo/
There is this, but other than that...?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#18
Posted: 11/18/20 at 12:56pm
BroadwayNYC2 said: "I don’t think it’s a secret we have a media literacy issue in this country, and it ain’t just conservatives. The call is coming from inside the house, and it isn’t getting better"
100%
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#19
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:24pm
bwayboy22 said: "Do we think anything will come of this? They tweeted the following:
Screw it. Im done seeing Broadway powers protect Broadway predators.
We all know about The NY Times story that was squashed.
Were picking up where they left off and will publish what they wouldnt.
If anyone has any information, DM us, anonymity will be protected. #MeToo
https://twitter.com/onstageblog/status/1328877942672338945?s=21"
First pick up all the apostrophes you left off and then we'll take it seriously. Or really still not, echoing Kad and HogansHero.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#20
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:34pm
Meanwhile, from the LA Times:
https://twitter.com/cashleelee/status/1329125554155470849
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#21
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:41pmHas this story even been published yet? I’m seeing a whole lotta steam and no sizzle.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#22
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:44pm
You mean the one that was killed by the NYT? The whole point is that it wasn't published.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#23
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:49pm
When I read “Were picking up where they left off and will publish what they wouldnt.” I assumed they actually HAD the story, and weren’t just fishing for one.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#24
Posted: 11/18/20 at 1:53pm
jonartdesigns said: "When I read “Were picking up where they left off and will publish what they wouldnt.” I assumed they actually HAD the story, and weren’t just fishing for one.
"
Just very inelegant phrasing from them, which is... another reason why this should not be pursued by OnStage.
OnStage Blog Picking Up Dropped NYT #MeToo Broadway Story#25
Posted: 11/18/20 at 2:13pm
Kad said: "...to say nothing of the legal challenges they could face."
I mean this is everything they should be talking about. If they go down this road their legal liability could be huge especially if they go after people who may not be considered public figures.
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