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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Fox News Columnist Roger Friedman fired for pirate movie review

I have been linking to Roger Friedman of Fox News on this blog for years . He was great. Someone hire him! Here is what happened :

Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by “zero tolerance” when it comes to movie piracy.

On Friday, the film studio 20th Century Fox — owned by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled by Mr. Murdoch — became angry after reading Mr. Friedman’s latest column. (Movie bloggers had started opining about it late Thursday, alerting the studio.) The subject was “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week. READ IT

I found out about Friedman because he was a frequent guest on Matt Drudge's old radio show. If you wanted the latest Michael Jackson news, Friedman was your man!

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