Diederik Van-Hoogstraten: Last News

Golden Globes, have resigned in protest at the organisation.Wenting Xu and Diederik van Hoogstraten said in a letter (obtained by the LA Times) that the HFPA was “toxic”, which comes after an exposé earlier this year alleged corruption and lack of diversity in the association.In their reasoning, the two claimed that the “majority of the membership resists deep change” and that new rules aimed at improving diversity had been “watered down to meet the demands of a majority of the current Board and many change-averse members”.They also alleged that there was a culture of “insulation, silence, fear of retribution, self-dealing, corruption and verbal abuse”, adding: “The HFPA continues to accommodate a toxic environment that undermines

“A toxic place for working journalists,” is how two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association described the group as they announced Thursday that they were leaving the group. They claim the majority of the Golden Globes organization’s members are resistant to efforts to improve diversity and ethical standards.