That may be an odd takeaway from the Sony hacking scandal that has been wracking the company and the film studio it owns, Sony Pictures Entertainment. But the relative invisibility of these executives vis-a-vis their talent — and what looks like the executives’ anger about this — are among the biggest revelations in the document dumps.
What the most incendiary emails unveil is that Hollywood, for all its outward intramural amity, is a community deeply divided between those who are ostensibly in power — the studio execs and producers — and those who really hold power — the stars and major directors. All that “kiss-kiss” stuff between them belies the dysfunction and deep resentment the servants harbor against their social betters. Even though those resentful servants are moguls who make millions of dollars.
This is not the way most observers have interpreted the Sony hack. They have called it an object lesson in the fragility of privacy in the age of the Internet. Some, like writer Aaron Sorkin, have seen the publication of the emails by the general press as an abuse of the First Amendment and lashed the media for being “morally treasonous,” in a New York Times op-ed article.
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Sony hack reveals Hollywood's bitter civil war
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