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Awards swag is pretty common to send to critics groups these days, even my smaller NY group.
Sometimes it's just a way to get them to open a box and look at a screener but flying press to junkets in general has been going on for decades. That's the whole point of a junket -- gather all the talent in one place, bring all the press to them, circulate. So yeah, I've been invited to a couple of these things in L.A. over the years and now they're coming back
I'll be curious to see if any of the writers of that L.A. Times story are in the LA Film Critics Circle (the NY Times doesn't allow its critics to join ANY of these groups)...
LAT: Critics Choice Awards and its founder/leader has some of the same issues as the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. Dec 10, 09:22
Unlike HFPA you can view all their members and directors and they are a pretty diverse group. Dec 10, 09:25
For full disclosure, Netflix gave me an Uber voucher so I could get home from the Lost Daughter event last week. {nm} Dec 10, 09:31
Awards swag is pretty common to send to critics groups these days, even my smaller NY group. Dec 10, 09:45
And I believe Board of Directors members are paid a $10k a year stipend but honestly, Joey Berlin is doing CCA 24-7. {nm} Dec 10, 09:46