Roger Friedman discovered “just what Rupert Murdoch means by ‘zero tolerance’ when it comes to movie piracy,” said Brooks Barnes in The New York Times. The Foxnews.com entertainment columnist was fired over the weekend for his recent review of a leaked, unfinished version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the upcoming film by 20th Century Fox, which is owned by Murdoch.
What was Friedman thinking? said Bruce Simmons in Screen Rant. Not only was it foolish for him to review the movie, but then he “bragged” about how easy it was to find and download the pirated version. “When you work for the bank, you should not brag that you stole their money!”
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