{"id":1723,"date":"2008-05-15T03:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T02:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2008-05-15T03:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T02:10:42","slug":"cannes-2008-buzz-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/05\/15\/cannes-2008-buzz-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes 2008: Buzz Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampav.com\/\">American Pavilion<\/a> in Cannes yesterday, there was a debate entitled <strong>Buzz Builders<\/strong> which dealt with movie journalism and the internet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The AmPav by AHeron, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ambrose\/514813614\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/218\/514813614_ceb8909163.jpg\" alt=\"The AmPav\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Ben Block<\/strong> moderated a panel that included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mike Jones<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/\">Variety<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alison Willmore <\/strong>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/film\/indie-eye\/\">IFC.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eugene Hernandez<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/\">Indiewire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Poland<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviecitynews.com\/\">Movie City News<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a> video link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few key bits <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2008\/05\/buzz_builders.php\">as relayed by Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Poland said that the difference between print and online film writing is a &#8220;lack of editing&#8221; and seasoned judgment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Both Hernandez and Jones mentioned the importance of judgment and &#8220;context&#8221; in the reporting of news stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Poland said later that an online hurdle thus far is that &#8220;there&#8217;s no money&#8221; in blogging for many if not most writers who toil in this medium. Or at least, &#8220;not enough to live on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And yet &#8220;having a seat at the table&#8221; is what everyone wants, he said, including the <em>N.Y. Times<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the bit that really struck me was when he quotes David Poland as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.he &#8220;would be very surprised if <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> is still [around] three years from now.&#8221;  (I think he meant in its present form, but maybe not.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this true?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s for a second assume this isn&#8217;t a throwaway line about a traditional media outlet not adapting to the times.<\/p>\n<p>Is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollywood_Reporter\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> <em>really <\/em>going the way of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Premiere_Magazine#Cancellation\">Premiere Magazine<\/a>? Or is it perhaps adapting to some kind of web\/print hybrid?<\/p>\n<p>On a more pressing point, why don&#8217;t the American Pavilion or the organisers of the debate film this and put it up on the web? Why no live stream? Or YouTube video? Or some kind of transcript?<\/p>\n<p>What is sometimes depressing &#8211; and indeed ironic &#8211; about these kinds of debate is that they suffer from the very problems they are discussing.<\/p>\n<p>At a talk last year at the London Film Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/23\/london-film-festival-2007-is-the-internet-killing-the-film-critic\/\">about the internet and film criticism<\/a>, the moderator mused at one point that maybe the panel (which consisted of two national newspaper critics, plus two heads of content from MySpace and the BBC) should have included a blogger, as that&#8217;s what they were partly discussing.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly here, with all the chat about the merits of blogger vs traditional media, we should be reminded that if it wasn&#8217;t for <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2008\/05\/buzz_builders.php\">the efforts of Hollywood Elsewhere<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spout.com\/2008\/05\/14\/abcs-and-buzz-blognosh-051408\/\">a link from Spout Blog<\/a>, then anyone outside of the American Pavilion probably wouldn&#8217;t know about this.<\/p>\n<p>If the issues are important enough to debate at one of the key venues of the world&#8217;s biggest film festival, then why not disseminate it to the wider world via the web?<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2008\/05\/buzz_builders.php\">Original report at Hollywood Elsewhere<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampav.com\/\">Official site of The American Pavilion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the American Pavilion in Cannes yesterday, there was a debate entitled Buzz Builders which dealt with movie journalism and the internet. Alex Ben Block moderated a panel that included: Mike Jones of Variety Alison Willmore of IFC.com Eugene Hernandez from Indiewire David Poland of Movie City News (via Skype video link) Here are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35,20],"tags":[2813,151,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}