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No response would've been better than that response.

latch 16y ago
I dunno. I read the tech crunch piece, and felt like Moviefone/AOL were in the wrong. Now that I've read Moviefone's response, the whole thing seems overblown. They didn't threaten them with respect to future access. They didn't demand anything. They weren't rude or antagonizing. They just asked for a change. To me, it now seems like they did exactly what they ought to given how they probably felt.
- Devilboy 16y ago
  You don't ask journalists to change their articles to make the subject look good. That's just NOT ok, even without the explicit threat.
  - latch 16y ago
    On the one hand, you're right (and I appreciate the response rather than the downvote!). On the other hand... I'm an amateur writer (I admit, this is far from a journalist). Sometimes I'm just wrong, or I write something that ends up coming across differently than I expected. I always welcome feedback, even if I disagree with it, or I think it might be driven by some bias. It doesn't mean that I'm going to change it. But without such feedback, I'm not sure I'd ever get better. I guess I'm worried that in your world, journalist would be living in an ivory tower. This constantly happens. People submit editorials with their opinion about what others wrote. People write-in to journalist all the time - to agree or disagree. A movie review isn't an objective piece of pure journalism. It's much more of a subjective editorial, and as such, should be open to far more feedback.
    - Devilboy 16y ago
      There's a difference between feedback and 'change your article'.
      - randall 16y ago
        Not to mention the feedback was "we don't like that you didn't absolutely love our movie."
- skunkworks 16y ago
  If you read the original article, the so-called snark is really minimal. Asking her to amend it for this seems petty and controlling IMO.
- bl4k 16y ago
  were you expecting the moviefone/AOL email to say "CHANGE THE FUCKING ARTICLE" off course they are subtle about it, it is so they can deny it later - but the recipient and the sender (and people reading it now) all know wtf is going on and what was being asked
skunkworks 16y ago
No kidding. It started out okay but descended into "it was them not us", followed by "we need to keep the studios happy". Some serious talking out of both sides of your mouth.
lucasbmccoy 16y ago
I agree 100%. It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.

latch 16y ago

I dunno. I read the tech crunch piece, and felt like Moviefone/AOL were in the wrong. Now that I've read Moviefone's response, the whole thing seems overblown. They didn't threaten them with respect to future access. They didn't demand anything. They weren't rude or antagonizing. They just asked for a change. To me, it now seems like they did exactly what they ought to given how they probably felt.

Devilboy 16y ago
You don't ask journalists to change their articles to make the subject look good. That's just NOT ok, even without the explicit threat.
- latch 16y ago
  On the one hand, you're right (and I appreciate the response rather than the downvote!). On the other hand... I'm an amateur writer (I admit, this is far from a journalist). Sometimes I'm just wrong, or I write something that ends up coming across differently than I expected. I always welcome feedback, even if I disagree with it, or I think it might be driven by some bias. It doesn't mean that I'm going to change it. But without such feedback, I'm not sure I'd ever get better. I guess I'm worried that in your world, journalist would be living in an ivory tower. This constantly happens. People submit editorials with their opinion about what others wrote. People write-in to journalist all the time - to agree or disagree. A movie review isn't an objective piece of pure journalism. It's much more of a subjective editorial, and as such, should be open to far more feedback.
  - Devilboy 16y ago
    There's a difference between feedback and 'change your article'.
    - randall 16y ago
      Not to mention the feedback was "we don't like that you didn't absolutely love our movie."
skunkworks 16y ago
If you read the original article, the so-called snark is really minimal. Asking her to amend it for this seems petty and controlling IMO.
bl4k 16y ago
were you expecting the moviefone/AOL email to say "CHANGE THE FUCKING ARTICLE" off course they are subtle about it, it is so they can deny it later - but the recipient and the sender (and people reading it now) all know wtf is going on and what was being asked

skunkworks 16y ago

No kidding. It started out okay but descended into "it was them not us", followed by "we need to keep the studios happy". Some serious talking out of both sides of your mouth.

lucasbmccoy 16y ago

I agree 100%. It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.