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Sun 29 Nov, 2009 07:36 am
Context:
Dinner crashers shop for interviews
Television exec: The couple that crashed the first state dinner has offered to talk to networks for a large sum.
To "shop for" something in this context means to look for it (like someone visiting lots of shops hoping to find a certain product).
@oristarA,
They are trying to shop their project - trying to find someone to sell their interview to.
There are two reasons for shopping the story: 1) to get their story out; and 2) to get the most possible money for the story.
another example of the use of this terminology
Quote: Currently he has been recording in the studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas and plans to shop his project to the Record Labels in 2003.
and from
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954777.html?categoryid=18&cs=1
Quote:The firm that pioneered the unsigned deal -- the key issue in client Coppola's 1998 "Pinocchio" trial where he claimed he was free to shop his project to other studios because he didn't have a completed longform agreement with Warner Bros. -- has oral retainer agreements with most of its clients.
@oristarA,
shop for interviews = make money from
being interview
ed by the media?
The two party crashers are hoping to make money by selling their story/giving interviews to the media
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