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You can look up the technical definition online but in general; "News" is when you check your facts and verify sources. This is what people in the real world tend to do when they want work in the field of journalism. "Gossip" is the shadowy realm of printing anything you can cut and paste, emails from disgruntled sources that demand to remain nameless, and the dirt that so many claim to hate but secretly read anyway on the hopes that it is about someone else.

As I've told you in the past, you have the potential to provide a better news source than most in the industry but you typically cater to the LCD types and limit your website greatly in the process. Despite what so many think, you have enough potential to provide a real alternative to the industry websites but all too often just go ahead with the story so you can scoop the likes of Gene or others.

It's not like there aren't plenty of great stories just dying on the vine for lack of someone willing to spend a few hours (or days, weeks, etc) researching them but don't expect the industry publications and websites to check these out (AVN will if it involves attacking religion, the government, or the GOP but rarely scrutinize potential advertisers). Just like "good porn", there is a huge market for real news and not just press releases or dressed up editorials that amount to junior high level rants but you have to want to do it.




you probably knew this already but Luke had nothing to do with the post I made, I just thought because of the reaction to his blog in the last few weeks that people would like to know how he felt. I don't think he would've posted here himself, he seems to have disappeared from here for a while


I agree with your assesment as well. Porn is like any other business and there are probably good stories within that business in which Luke could investigate and help make the business a better place to work, perhaps a naive thought but nvertheless a good one to try. However Luke is fixated on what he perceives to be the "Evil Industry" if i can mangle a quote. And not only that he seems to have become uncomfortable close to some of the people in the industry - and im not refering to the people he claims to have slept with. You cannot be objective if your in a relationship [ journalistically speaking] that compromises your ability to evenly and without bias present facts for people to make their own judgments.


Unfortunately Luke seems to go for the low road


Edited by hyperion (07/23/07 10:47 PM)