The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Are They Worthy?

NIKKI FINKE

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AGE: roughly 53
OCCUPATION: Journalist/blogger, LA Weekly columnist
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Her well-sourced "Deadline Hollywood Daily" blog became the unofficial switchboard of the writer's strike: even the negotiators were reading it. And she may be the first industry blogger to get a shout-out on Letterman.

CON: Her blatantly pro-writer stance raised the perennial question about blogs: is "Deadline" journalism or advocacy?

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