for mtv, august = video music awards
lmao duh never mind me
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 4 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
the quick hit model is losing traction though from what i can tell. what worked in 2014/15 is not necessarily working in 2018. a couple of years ago i worked for a site that would routinely publish long-ish pieces about musicians and pop culture that got more uniques that the extremely expensive videos that were being produced a few yards away. of course the videos d00ds would then add in their FB "reach" and claim that those numbers counted just as much as their site uniques, but they don't.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 December 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
quick hits are also basically useless if your site is not already well-trafficked, unless you manage to find the sweet spot of "has a fanbase that clicks"/"does not already have 1000 quick-hits about their latest instagram post from bigger fish than you."
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 4 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
the uncool narrative that no one wants to talk about is that prestige thinkpieces did not work as well as the Buzzfeed-y news aggregation/quick-hit model of 2014-2015
isn't part of that narrative, that the buzzfeed-y model was arms-racy too?
― j., Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
Southcomm, owner of the Nashville Scene and other weeklies, announced awhile back they wanted to sell the Washington DC City Paper by the end of the year. As they haven't sold it yet, at a meeting today per tweets they informed staff: Washington City Paper staffers will be undergoing a 40 percent pay cut starting in 2018.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 December 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
that is ... a lot
― alpine static, Monday, 18 December 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
They didn't make much before the cuts.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/12/18/washington-city-paper-staff-has-salaries-cut-40-percent-as-alt-weekly-struggles-to-find-buyer/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 December 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
Dumb question, maybe: Where are the progressive rich ppl to buy these papers and keep them alive as progressive voices, aka the opposite of what the new owners of L.A. Weekly are (allegedly) trying to do?
There are rich progressive people, too, right? If I had a billion dollars I'd buy up these papers and lose a small fraction of my bottomless pool of money just to keep them alive and doing what they do.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
there is some interesting stuff going on with the chicago reader right now/this year
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
This is what's fucking depressing, overall; the feeling that longform nuanced discussion of a topic is relegated to the whims of the progressive rich.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
http://www.robertfeder.com/2017/10/07/chicago-reader-staff-accepts-new-contract/
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
I mean, let's all assess what we have going on, positively-speaking. What would happen to The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, or Scientific American if the upper-middle (or possibly just upper class) stopped supporting them overall? Is there enough of the true middle-class to support these publications? Maybe.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
something of a tangent but I keep imagining that I'm going to wake up in the middle night and have my past month's workload presented to me, Ghost of Christmas Past-style, as an intervention
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
just this very long dickensian clip show of everyone I've disappointed and everything I screwed up
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/article/20986837/long-live-city-paper
Mark Ein, Democrat philanthropist and Washington Kastles tennis team owner is buying the Washington DC City Paper. This looks like good news.
With purchase of @WCP by @Markein staff will NOT take pay cuts. @jaketapper will be part of advisory group as will former DC Mayor Tony Williams pic.twitter.com/pUVE1bAQjO— Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) December 22, 2017
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
after 2 years of total burnout, i think i like writing again.. whoa— Fire Marshal Meaghan (@meaghan_garvey) December 21, 2017
inspo for the burnt
― j., Friday, 22 December 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
oh neat a new at&t audience network (?) series about a failed music writer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ZTaGlbQjM
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
lol
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
starting with "spent too long on the road with bands" (more like, spent too long in the coffee shop with strong enough wifi to download and stream), ending with "I think she's the reason he's redeemable"
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
The actor playing Loudermilk is 50, it's not that far-fetched imo
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
i like ron livingston a lot. he was really good in SEARCH PARTY. also this was created by a farrelly brother...
― maura, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
to be fair I don't know how old he's supposed to be in the series, guy doesn't look 50 though
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 28 December 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
he turned 50 in june
― maura, Thursday, 28 December 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
Southcomm sold its Kansas City paper too
https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/12/26/the-pitch-new-ownership-editor-david-hudnall.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
wow voice media group sold them right before i started working there
― maura, Friday, 29 December 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
It seems Southcomm bought up a bunch of alt-weeklies from the Voice media Group, then determined years later that they weren't going to become richer the way they were running them, and so they are now selling them off slowly (they still have Nashville Scene but let go of the editor and others; they sold Washington City Paper and Kansas City Pitch)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
voice media group never owned washington city paper. it was started by the people who launched the baltimore cp.
this is depressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouthComm_Communications
― maura, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
True. That's right Washington City Paper got sold long ago to Chicago Reader, and later to Creative Loafing and then to Southcomm. Tronc.inc (that bought and later shut down Baltimore City Paper; along with what it did elsewhere) and Southcomm have not been helpful to the alt-weeklies
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
nope! neither has wrapports (owners of the reader). media executives are the worst.
― maura, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
i’m giving up
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
WHAT
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
at every turn this year i felt either implicitly disrespected by the publications i wrote for and/or the writing and editing process itself was so horrible and full of second-guessing that i could never enjoy the work that came out of it. i couldn’t even get a band i like into a year-end list which is just the latest way in which i feel my taste and my approach as a critic and my work aren’t “correct”
just gotta figure out something else to do
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
More to say after lunch but short answer: hell no
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
i don’t feel valued as a freelancer and has been proven countless times over the past four years, no one would ever hire me. so why put myself through it xp
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
which band? :(
― imago, Monday, 12 November 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
i'd rather not say
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
i know it's extremely dramatic to announce this in a thread on ilx but writing it to myself wasn't enough
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
we need good people fighting critical orthodoxy from within so this is a shame
― imago, Monday, 12 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
also a shame for you obviously
― imago, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
this is extremely sad, but I understand it so badly. it's a completely different reality, but I did the same in Portugal.it's not much, but you have all my support.
― Nourry, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I'm also sad about this, but tbh quitting pursuits that are decreasing in personal enjoyment levels and/or compensation/sustainability is a super underrated move even if it feels shitty at the time so I can't help but support this decision
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
thanks y'all <3
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
THAT SAID if you were to start some kind of monthly emo newsletter or something just to have a project, I'd throw a couple $$ at that
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Brad, I won't ask for details here, but I and quite a few of us would miss your precision, grace, and humor should you renounce criticism. Even pre-internet criticism was never a numbers game. Whether it's about Van Morrison or sundry remarks here, your POV means a great deal.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
thanks alfred <3
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
my taste and my approach as a critic and my work aren’t “correct”
ironically, about this, you are
rong
― j., Monday, 12 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
writer as worst interpreter of his own work shockah
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
that's not how i feel about my own work but it is how music media makes me think i should feel about my own work, if that helps
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Brad's taste and approach aren't the most appealing to editors, which doesn't make them wrong, just out of sync with the lame state of music writing rn
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
THAT SAID if you were to start some kind of monthly emo newsletter or something just to have a project, I'd throw a couple $$ at that― wayne trotsky (Simon H.)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.)
same.
― Nourry, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link