I'd be interested to know how this develops. If you are following this and hear of any response from Spike Lee etc, please update here. Content creators are treated like crap these days, it's amazing to me.
Oh man. Prepare to get angry. Spike Lee just responded.
Spike Less got called out by name for some shit he had no involvement in. Why should Lee, who got called out as a scammy cheapskate, do anything but tell this guy to fuck off? Notice how the author didn't mention his endless creative meetings with Mr. Lee? Or any involvement with him what so ever? Pretty sure if I just had my name drug through the mud with absolutly no basis my reaction to the mud-dragger would be "Go Fuck Yourself." I also notice that the add agency isn't named one time in the entire piece?
I'm not angry, he's likely telling the truth. My anger is with the agency, let's see how they respond.
Exactly. His response is something that I would expect from a bratty high school kid. Staying quiet or simply saying "I'm looking into this" would've been infinitely better.
I agree. He seems to be fully engaged in preserving plausible deniability (which he may well be entitled to, or may have been up until now). And I agree with thenewgreen that he may well be following protocol established exactly for these types of situations -- which does not even remotely absolve him. Complicity is a many tentacled terror.
My guess is that if he openly admits looking in to it, he opens a pandora box of these types of assertions. He has people that will likely look on to it.