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/
>>>
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