When "The Show Business" news hits and goes 'round on fan forums, speculations always arise. Then I'm reminded of a recent piece going 'round too … to the reasoning that there a disturbing pattern among fans on forums and clearly educated and otherwise honorable and incisive critics, bloggers, hosts and journalists: a persistent misunderstanding of what the business is actually about, that ranges from inadvertent stereotyping to unwitting perpetuation of outdated terms to misapplied critique all the way to aggressively unapologetic ignorance.
