{"id":3131,"date":"2002-08-05T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T03:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2002-08-05T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2002-08-06T03:43:45","slug":"geeks_rule_but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/05\/geeks_rule_but.html","title":{"rendered":"Geeks rule … but don’t get respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSo the LA Times <\/i>this morning has an interesting article<\/a> on how the San Diego Comic-Con is evolving into a great place for Hollywood to drum up fan support, get feedback on fan concerns, and try to quash Internet rumors about movies and TV productions. <\/p>\n

Yea, verily, the Hollywood sorts are actually putting a lot of time and effort into making presentations at the Con, and generally according the attendees a certain degree of respect for their influence.<\/p>\n

Alas, the Times <\/i>has significantly less respect, since a key photo for the story — and the lead photo on the web page — is a rather sad-looking fanboy geek, gut bulging in his home-made Superman outfit, and looking generally pathetic. “Look at me! I read comic books!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the LA Times this morning has an interesting article on how the San Diego Comic-Con is evolving into a great place for Hollywood to drum up fan support,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6717,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/comic_con_summe.html","url_meta":{"origin":3131,"position":0},"title":"Comic-Con — Summer Sundance","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Jul-04 6:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"A review by Heidi Macdonald of the San Diego Comic-Con and how it's been conquered by Hollywood -- not to mention the question of whether that's a good thing or...","rel":"","context":"In "Comics & Comic Books"","block_context":{"text":"Comics & Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28613,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/san-diego-and-hollywood.html","url_meta":{"origin":3131,"position":1},"title":"San Diego and Hollywood","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Jul-12 10:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I was there as the San Diego Comic-Con \u00a0began its love affair with Hollywood. \u00a0I sat in the panel for Tim Burton's upcoming \"Batman\" movie, as well as another one for TV's \"Flash\". \u00a0Back in the golden days before the Convention Center ...Since then, SDCC became Hollywood south, with all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43912,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/mile-high-comics-is-calling-it-quits-on-the-san-diego-comic-con.html","url_meta":{"origin":3131,"position":2},"title":"Mile High Comics is calling it quits on the San Diego Comic Con","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Jul-14 11:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics says it looks like he won't be bringing an MHC booth back to the SDCC any more.\u00a0The reason? 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