BREAKING... This morning, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences pulled Deadline Film Editor/NY Editor Mike Fleming's backstage press credential to cover the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The Academy's PR specifically cited that the reason was Deadline's coverage. Since Friday, Deadline has been reporting "spoilers" about Sunday night's show after being leaked a detailed rundown of the telecast schedule.�(Billy Crystal Is Making Oscars Appearance: Exclusive Spoilers From Detailed Schedule)
So, to sum up, Deadline was banned from covering the Oscars precisely for covering the Oscars. And�our spoilers were picked up by the world press. Yet there's�a long history of entertainment journalists�besides us publishing various scoops about the show during the week leading up to the Academy Awards broadcast. But, until now, no media outlet has ever published so many scoops as Deadline did yesterday.�So the fact that we did our reporting job�too well put the Academy on tilt.
So around 10 AM, AMPAS�Director Of Communications Leslie Unger phoned Deadline's�Fleming to give him the news even though he flew in from New York to Los Angeles specially to cover the Academy Awards. "We're not going to be able to issue you that credential," she told him, "because of Deadline's coverage of the Oscars." I then confirmed the ban with Unger, who told me she had been "instructed" to revoke Fleming's backstage press credential by the Academy's executive administrator Ric Robertson with ... Read More »
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