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Golden Globes: NBC's Nightmare (Cont.)

Inside baseball perhaps, but still an important development on the GG front: NBC News's "exclusive" coverage of this Sunday's Golden Globes is no longer "exclusive." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has opened up coverage to EVERYONE, or at least everyone who's credentialed. NBC - which had been reduced to covering these silly awards as though they were actually a news event and had forced the HFPA to keep other news orgs away from them - apparently took megadoses of Xanax this morning and has agreed to let others cover. nbc_200306.jpg


Here's the statement from the Writers Guild (which had threatened to picket the awards because of NBC's "exclusive" deal):

"The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that instead of the usual televised three-hour gala on NBC, the HFPA will take complete control of its 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards Announcement and host a press conference open to all media to announce the winners of the Golden Globes. In light of this change to the program, the WGA gave the HFPA our assurances that there would be no picket of their press conference on Sunday."

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