very weird pitchfork experience

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i've just read a press release/biog i wrote for a band get only ever so slightly rewritten as a news piece on pitchfork... i know that is essentially what news departments do, but it was odd to read what i thought might be a new story on the artist in question, only to find every fact from the biog regurgitated in the same order, often using very similar wording...

i don't know why it feels so odd, but it just does...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

this is what I do for a living now (re-writing press releases) and yes it is weird.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A significant % of Pitchfork "news" stories are recycled from other web sources - AND they are often several days late. They rarely cite sources, and why do they have to write their news stories in such a wanky way - just cut straight to the point.

an example TV on the Radio sign to 4ad, mentioned on my blog [as i reported what John Kennedy said on Xfm]

Turns up on Pitchfork the following day, but i don't get a mention/ credit for alerting them.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

wanna point out which one?

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't the internet just eat itself?
Press releases get sent to websites, fansites copy the news word for word for their websites. then other websites pick it up and copy it word for word..

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the Internet can devour itself, like the Midgard Serpent. Material is sent around to webmasters while eager fans regurgitate it fully. Then more people on the web do little when repeating that same 'news.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i know that's how the system works, but it was odd... rewritten in that annoying pitchfork news style, like they were coming up with all these weird and kooky facts, etc, but i knew exactly where they were coming from because i wrote the ucker in the first place.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie, you and I should launch a charm offensive.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry i am confused, first you say you read the press release, then you say you wrote it.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i said i just read a press release i *wrote* get ever so slightly rewritten. like i said, i know that's how it all works, it was just weird because its the first time a press release *i* wrote got rewritten so nakedly.

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

well, at least that means they probably got the story nearly accurate then.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

what's really hard is re-shooting VIDEO press releases

haha "accurate" as in "exactly what the person who has something to sell said"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always wanted to write for a fashion and beauty mag that tears all the products it covers to shreds, just scathing reviews of lip balms and ankle-bracelets

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Not glossy enough by half, C-."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but like, scathing

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"I crapped better eyeshadow than this after a Spring Break '97 in Tijuana."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie, I just got one of your bulk emails and you didn't hide the addresses! Travis at Buddyhead does the same thing and it's criminal. So I sold all your friends/colleagues addresses to a mad spammer.

― andy, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm glad someone's making money, andy! (and sorry - i'm usually quite good at bcc'ing stuff)

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Internet.

http://celtdigital.org/snake2.gif

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Internet.

http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/mweidner/babel.jpg

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Internet.

http://www.snia.org/about/images/network_component_icons/Internet.jpg

― trouble, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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