Multiple studios have vowed to boycott production in Georgia should the controversial Free Exercise Protection Act become law, but a Christian advocacy group says that the studios are picking and choosing when to make a stand. “I feel like it’s hypocritical from some of these businesses because they do business in foreign countries that are very adverse to the Lgbt community directly,” Mike Griffin, public affairs representative for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board told TheWrap. “All these things being done — fear mongering and demagoguing this particular legislation — it’s gotten where any time anybody says anything about First Amendment rights,...
- 3/25/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Bain Capital wants a piece of Gawker. Or, at least, it did. A newly minted analyst at Mitt Romney's former private equity firm emailed Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton Tuesday evening to set up a meeting with the self-professed "gossip merchant." "Just came across Gawker and I'm interested in what you're building," analyst Mike Griffin wrote in the email, which Gawker published on Wednesday. Therein lies his first mistake -- he just "came across" the site and didn't do much digging. Because even a quick Google search reveals that the site published a trove...
- 10/10/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
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