Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe Golden Globes are facing down a scandal that has felt, in moments over the past week, practically existential, with Los Angeles Times reporting indicating both a systemic and corrupt self-dealing and a total lack of Black members.
Both of these strands have always been understood by some portion of the viewership as part of the complicated and unsavory mix of how promotion works in Hollywood: There are as many examples of unworthy but aggressively-pushed projects to have been met with Globes success as there have been worthy projects about the Black experience to have been blanked.The implicit rebuttal to all this, in past years when this was vaguely known without having been put as concretely into.
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