I'm pretty sure that these days, most of these "foreign press" are basically freelancers who might publish the odd article here and there, but I wouldn't imagine many news organisations these days have any kind of permanent Hollywood entertainment correspondents.
I remember years ago seeing a list of the then membership and not recognising any of the British names as writing for major titles in the UK. I actually spent some time researching everyone who claimed to be published in the UK. Spoiler: few of them seemed to be actually published here: https://www.adambowie.com/blog/2004/12/golden_globes_w/ Adam On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:06 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I think something like your first suggestion is pretty much what they are > asking for - they want them to more than triple their current membership, > which is not adding thousands, but, along with higher professional > standards, would basically marginalize the current membership. > > I do think the main motivation is to stop their talent from having to take > all those fawning photographs with the awful HFPA people, without having to > pay a price in losing nominations/wins. By boycotting until the current > membership is diluted enough to blunt their toxicity, and practices are > changed so that fluffing and blowing the “journalists” is no longer > necessary or allowed, they are protecting themselves. > > On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 12:19 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’ve been trying to think of what the HFPA could do at this point, and >> there really isn’t anything, short of opening up their membership to >> include hundreds if not thousands of international film critics, which they >> would never do as they consider their membership an exclusive privilege. >> The current members — all of them — are the problem. >> >> What are the odds Netflix hosts/produces its own awards show? I’m >> thinking that’s what they’re gearing up to announce. >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 12:03 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yesterday Netflix, which dominated the most recent Golden Globes, >>> announced it was not satisfied with recently announced plans for reform by >>> the HFPA, and would not be working with them anymore until more changes >>> were made. >>> >>> This is on top of an announcement the same day that 100 global PR firms >>> would “continue to refrain from any HFPA sanctioned events, including press >>> conferences.” >>> >>> No doubt a number of big stars want to avoid having to associate and >>> take photos with HFPA members when their racism is increasingly visible. >>> But Deadline reports that also at issue is the informal, >>> corruption-friendly policies that govern HFPA activities. >>> >>> It does seem that if the Golden Globes are to continue in any viable >>> form, they are going to have to be based on significant change to the >>> organization, making it more diverse and less corrupt. >>> >>> Of course, if studios and publicists can no longer buy and schmooze >>> their way to nominations and wins, it will remain to be seen what value the >>> GG add to the Emmys and Oscars (themselves of course somewhat embattled for >>> somewhat different reasons). >>> >>> >>> >>> https://deadline.com/2021/05/netflix-hollywood-foreign-press-ultimatum-ted-sarandos-diversity-inclusion-controversy-1234752218/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLoSkryMm9VRc-dQz9c_a3XycrFRSZ2HbVtgd8t%2BZOD0g%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLoSkryMm9VRc-dQz9c_a3XycrFRSZ2HbVtgd8t%2BZOD0g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >> >> >>> -- >> Kevin M. 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