Can the Golden Globes come back?

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Golden Globes is going to air this week on NBC after a year-long hiatus in the wake of an ethical scandal over its parent company, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Can its comeback stick?

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0:00.0	It's one of the entertainment industry's most well-known award shows.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Golden Globes, and Happy New Year Hollywood.
0:10.7	We are going to have from five years. Let's have a laugh at your expense, shall we?
0:15.9	But the Golden Globes are one of the most problematic award shows, too.
0:19.9	Many talented people of color were snubbed in major categories.
0:23.6	Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that.
0:25.6	The Hollywood foreign press are all very, very racist.
0:28.6	After 2021 LA Times investigation revealed that the group that runs the Golden Globes,
0:33.6	the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
0:35.6	committed multiple ethical lapses and had no black members at all.
0:39.3	Many in Hollywood boycotted the awards.
0:41.3	Then NBC even took the Golden Globes off the air.
0:44.3	But tomorrow? It's back.
0:47.3	NBC says the Golden Globes will be back on TV on January 10th.
0:51.3	The return of the Golden Globes this week is its way of telling Hollywood, we've changed.
0:57.1	No, really.
1:01.5	I'm Gustav Ariano.
1:03.0	You're listening to The Times, Essential News, from the LA Times.
1:06.7	It's Monday, January 9, 2023.
1:09.6	Today, has the Hollywood Foreign Press Association done enough to fix its reputation?
1:14.1	Or are the Golden Globes too tarnished to ever truly shine again?
1:20.5	Stacey Permit is a company-town reporter working on investigations and enterprise stories in the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times,
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