No seats for mainstream media at premiere of “Melania”

Illo: Beschizza

There’s the classic “not screened for critics,” and then there’s this: Variety reports that mainstream press were “blocked” from watching the premiere of “Melania,” the “documentary” that cost Amazon $40m up front and another $35m in marketing costs.

Reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and Vanity Fair, among dozens o…