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Movie Website Snark
May. 16th, 2008 05:15 pmTo movie "news" websites everywhere:
I've read more than a few articles lately from "major" online news sites complaining that Variety and Hollywood Reporter don't acknowledge them or credit them when they post news that has already broken on the online site. "We said X thing about upcoming movie Y and two days later, Hollywood Reporter said the same and they didn't even mention our website. Not even to say 'confirming the rumor posted by Website Z a couple days ago...'"
Guess what, sugarcake? They probably don't even read your website. They've been in the business long enough that they don't have to. You know how they got the news? Some studio suit picked up a phone and called them. You know how you got the news? You have a friend whose cousin was loitering outside the right door at the right time.
When they have the news, the world takes notice, because it usually means it's really happening. When you have news, the world -- assuming they've even passed by your corner of the web -- arches an eyebrow and says "Well, that'd be neat. I'll wait for something official to come out before I get too excited." When Harry Knowles altered the way entertainment news was reported, he didn't exactly do it for the betterment of journalism. You're a product of that. By the virtue of the fact that you are more interested in getting credit for being first with a piece of news than you are in actually reporting fully verified, accurate stories, you will always be second- or third-tier.
Suck it up and live with it.
I've read more than a few articles lately from "major" online news sites complaining that Variety and Hollywood Reporter don't acknowledge them or credit them when they post news that has already broken on the online site. "We said X thing about upcoming movie Y and two days later, Hollywood Reporter said the same and they didn't even mention our website. Not even to say 'confirming the rumor posted by Website Z a couple days ago...'"
Guess what, sugarcake? They probably don't even read your website. They've been in the business long enough that they don't have to. You know how they got the news? Some studio suit picked up a phone and called them. You know how you got the news? You have a friend whose cousin was loitering outside the right door at the right time.
When they have the news, the world takes notice, because it usually means it's really happening. When you have news, the world -- assuming they've even passed by your corner of the web -- arches an eyebrow and says "Well, that'd be neat. I'll wait for something official to come out before I get too excited." When Harry Knowles altered the way entertainment news was reported, he didn't exactly do it for the betterment of journalism. You're a product of that. By the virtue of the fact that you are more interested in getting credit for being first with a piece of news than you are in actually reporting fully verified, accurate stories, you will always be second- or third-tier.
Suck it up and live with it.
