The critic Roger Ebert told The Chicago Tribune in 1999 that the movie industry's retaliation for her commentary "led to every newspaper in the country saying, 'Hey, we ought to get a real movie critic.' " Ms. Crist eschewed pretension, but never explanation.
"She senses antipathy toward her on AP's part, and believes AP wants to destroy her credibility in the media industry in retaliation for her complaints about her former boss, and for triggering the investigation that led to this finding of discrimination by the federal Department of Labor".
Now that the Chinese are threatening retaliation, industry officials say they can only hope Chinese taste buds outweigh protectionist impulses.
The same day his article appeared, the World Trade Organization ruled that the United States had not reformed cotton subsidies sufficiently to meet legal obligations in a longstanding case, leaving American agriculture and other domestic industries vulnerable to significant retaliation by Brazil.
Alexis arguably helped to teach the world what it means to be visibly transgender in the entertainment industry, while simultaneously achieving delicious retaliation for that Hollywood double standard in which straight men can win the industry's highest accolade for playing transgender characters while actual trans performers struggle just to get work.
(Phone goes dead)Frivolity apart, one has to hope that the two governments do not get trapped in a cycle of retaliation, with other industries demanding protection too.The US move makes little sense.
If the South Korean garlic case is an example, China's willingness to threaten sweeping retaliation against unrelated industries may indicate a new calculation that China's capitalist trading partners in Asia have more to lose than it does from worsening trade relations.
It was one of the first publicized sexual harassment suits against an Internet company, and it shocked the industry because harassment, sex discrimination and retaliation were supposed to be diseases of the old economy.
The EU threatened retaliation against products and industries in politically sensitive parts of the U.S.; it's turned out that two can play a politically motivated protectionist game.
At a recent meeting to discuss the matter, Beijing warned that if Brussels pressed ahead with its investigation, there would be severe retaliation against other western industries such as motoring and agriculture.
