Earlier today it was announced that an arbitrator had ruled in favor of Jeremy Piven and the Actor's Equity Association in the dispute over his abrupt departure from the Broadway production of David Mamet's "Speed the Plow."
When I think of The Economist I think of cerebral types who get it. But it looks like even highbrow intellectuals can demonstrate a poor judgment and even poorer execution when writing about seafood. The latest fish tale titled Hold The Sushi misses the mark so badly it's, quite frankly, disheartening.
Last week Greenpeace's outgoing Executive Director admitted that the once-revered eco outfit lies as a matter of strategy, this week it... lied some more. According to reports, here it is along side the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan suggesting tuna could be, "wiped out by 2048."
The Big Hollywood Blog has a Greenpeace feature today that is a must read. It includes a video clip from a BBC program in which the cornered Executive Director of Greenpeace squirms quite a bit before he admits that Greenpeace exaggerates and misreports as a matter of strategy.
The U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a study today that "Reveals Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide." And so it appears to be the case. No argument here. Nope. If that's what their study shows, I have no reason to doubt ‘em.
Jeremy Piven is out talkin' mercury poisoning again and, as usual, with shovel in hand he's diggin'. This time Piven goes into his ignorant song and dance about only eating fish for 23 years and how he became ill bla bla bla -the same dribble that earned him ridicule in the Hollywood press and a heaping pile of lawsuit to go with it.
Remember a while back when actor Jeremy Piven bailed out on his Broadway contract and then claimed he had mercury poising from eating sushi? But he hadn't quite done his research for that role because if he had he would have found that there has never been a case of mercury toxicity in this country from the normal consumption of commercial seafood-oops.
Human health case study Jeremy Piven now appearing in peer-reviewed medical journals world wide... not so much.
Really?
No not really.
But for months if not years NBC News has relied on an erroneous statistic that suggested the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. A statistic that was in error, an error that NFI brought to NBC's attention but instead of doing their due diligence in researching the evidence we provided them they sent us a statement that claimed the 2048 statistic was, "both a fair and accurate representation of fisheries and fisheries science."
