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Goldy Bloggy Blog
Published 6/24/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Goldy Bloggy Blog L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein has launched a daily blog to complement his once-weekly "Big Picture" column . Welcome to the club. The more the merrier. To put it kindly or generously, it only took Patrick's bosses five or six years to decipher the writing on the wall and respond accordingly. Goldstein assures he'll be writing "with much the same style and sensibility that you've grown accustomed to in the column" although the blog "will be broader in scope...where the worlds of entertainment, media and pop culture collide." Why not drop ...

Everyone Gets a Blog, Including the LAT's Blog-Hating Patrick Goldstein [Little Picture]
Published 6/24/2008 by Kyle Buchanan at Defamer
... Terrific — except those little birds at the LAT must have missed the part where Goldstein has already been blogging for weeks now (to be fair, it takes about that long to navigate the LAT website). Still, thank goodness we've got Goldstein on the "faster-than-pulp" blogging beat; his edgy, current musings like ...

Journalist Starts Blog; Earth Spins Off Axis, Universe Explodes.
Published 6/24/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... , was launching a new blog under the auspices of the paper, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. I think the exact thought that popped into my head was something along the lines of, “Oh hey! He likes to package ...

We Get No Respect…
Published 6/24/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... at how the bloggers themselves have reacted to the latest media guy to jump in the shark tank, Patrick Goldstein, “Journalist Starts Blog; Earth Spins Off Axis, Universe Explodes,” Longworth writes. Goldstein, who writes the Big Picture for the LA Times seems well suited for the blog format it’s a wonder he didn’t start out that way. Then again, what are blogs but an endless sea of op ed? ...

Why Is Nobody Calling Deadline Hollywood Daily on Its Mistake?
Published 6/26/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
Deadline Hollywood Daily adores to point out other people's errors -- both real and perceived -- so it surprised us at FBLA that nobody has called DHD out on the egregious error in its post about Patrick Goldstein's new blog, The Big Picture, at the LAT. "I'm told that, despite heavy promotion by the paper and other media, Goldstein's blog on Monday only received 1,102 page views, placing #35 out of 50 blogs at the LA Times." That's so funny. We got an e-mail (with ...

Patrick Says, "Oscar Go Away!"
Published 10/2/2008 at The Hot Blog
... I guess we could start with the hypocrisy that 4 of Patrick Goldstein's last 8 blog entries are about the Oscars, whether directly or in reference to The Reader. ...