Saturday, May 19, 2012

When A Fired Showrunner Pens A 'Goodbye' Letter, Then Post The 'Goodbye' Letter...Don't Just Write About It


UPDATE: A kind reader pointed me to this (thank you). Variety had it up all day. Not the whole letter, but excerpts. But it's not linked in their news story, so I missed it. Still, (kind of) good on them. I've amended my item below by taking them out of the WTF group.

EARLIER: Nellie - you understand. So thank you for running with this. But am I missing something? Did everyone else do the obvious thing and post Dan Harmon's actual screed telling his fans that he got axed from "Community" duty? But there's this (where the letter is at least linked) and this. This actually happens more often you think, and it's a headscratcher. So many of us you are trained to "report" -- all the time -- so it goes against your better instincts to just take something and post it. But is it also a laziness issue? How hard its it to create a shell in which something like this lives? As you can see on Deadline, the letter is funny and it reads better when taken as a whole and standing alone. And more to the point, I don't want your take on the letter, Mr./Mrs. Journalist...I just want the goddamn letter.

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