Director calls Nikki Finke the problem with journalism

Writer-director and ex-journalist Rod Lurie uses a second bad experience with Nikki Finke's reporting to go off on a rant about the dangers of bloggers posting inaccurate stories, usually without checking with their subjects. Lurie posts at The Wrap:

Right now there seems to be a new kind of insidious power in journalism: the independent reporter/blogger....The wannabe Murrows have become the de facto McCarthys -- carelessly lobbing accusations and innuendoes against unsuspecting victims.

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Ms. Finke is emblematic of a true danger that now exists in journalism: the unchecked reporter....I think there will soon be a revolution in legal Internet journalism. It simply cannot stand that reporters can just willy-nilly report rumors as fact. When that happens, reputations and careers can be destroyed at the whim of the reporter.

What made him snap was an item that called Lurie "this nasty piece of work who keeps hopscotching reps." No response—yet—from Finke.