So here's an important point - the New York Times mails me their newspaper. Every day. Without fail.
But I can't turn around and post their articles word-for-word without saying from the beginning that it is THEIR work. I can't use quotes from their writing or reporting on my show... without saying "According to the New York Times" or "Today, the New York Times posted this..." Etc Etc Etc.
I get AP wires at work. Reports from all around the world. Small fires in North Dakota, Civil Wars in Central Africa... everything. I also get releases from senators, congressmen, small town government officials, and the like.. But I can't simple write that stuff into a script because they sent it to me. If somebody else wrote it, the first rule of delivering news is to let the viewer know where it came from.
Somebody else's work being sent to me = it being mine now. And posting a press release as if it's something you reported is at-best lazy, and at-worst... plagiarism.
Take a look at how NBA.COM posts this same release:
http://www.nba.com/hawks/news/nzing...usion-officer-atlanta-hawks-and-philips-arena
See up at the top, how they make it OBVIOUS that this is a press release? That is responsible. That is how it is supposed to be done.
But you don't label them as such. You post them as if they are an article. You don't link to their original source, you don't in ANY WAY show that they are somebody else's, and not yours. You are pretending you generated the content. That is stealing.
"Accepted"? You asked for criticism, and I gave it.
You thanked me for it, and then did not put any of it into use. Which is fine. But you're not "checking" anybody. You are on social media and in here asking people to help you out, asking people to put you down, asking people to check out the site and offer advice.... some of it is obvious hate, but some of it is decent.
But you are not putting the work necessary to improve your product. 20+ posts in here, 3 blog updates this week. It's Thursday.
Because you are trying to build a content-distribution model. You want people to come see the content... and then there is no new content. You're not dealing art, or selling an album... where there is a finite amount of work, and people are vying for it. You are trying to push a website and blog posts, and then not making enough blog posts for people to see. If I logged onto your site yesterday, saw that there wasn't anything all that interesting, and decided to give you another shot today... what do I- the consumer - get?
A Hawks PR release that isn't even labeled or linked to the original.
Which is why you're getting so few unique users each day, and they stay on the page for such a small amount of time. There is no reason to stay.
Which brings me to my original point.
To the underlined - getting on an professional team's PR email list IS NOT an accomplishment. Getting a press pass to practice is not an accomplishment. One is a simple online request, anLd the other is an application with little vetting. They WANT ANYBODY to cover practice for them. They WANT ANYBODY to get their press releases. That is the whole idea of PR. The more people the blast out to, they happier they are.
Do you know how many GOP/Conservative mailing lists I'm on? They don't care that I'm a liberal journalist, they just want my email address so they say they're blasting out to One million and ONE readers.
You did not pass a test, you did not win a skill competition, you did not do anything of merit to get on those lists... you simply applied. Most people in here don't know the process for these things, but I do... so telling me "you're thorough enough for the NBA" is laughable... because I
actually covered professional and amateur sporting events for a living.
To the bolded - That's great. I'm glad there is a bunch of work going on behind the scenes. But the scenes themselves, are terrible, boring, plagiarized, or all three. You talk a lot about the moves you're making for your product, but your product is a garbage pile.
You'd rather yap about the revolution, than pick up a weapon...
@ this thread.
@ Tornadoes for life. Do you really think Anthony Anderson sits back and thinks about that role, after all the high grossing movies he's been in ? Let it go breh, you're living in the past.
I don't think you really understand what's happening here. I'm not the type to covet somebody else's life. I don't think talking about how big you're about to be is a bold step. I think it is the kind of thing people do... when they can't figure out what to actually do. 