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I bumped this to the second page of this thread, because I know that it gets read more.
The above point made here is something that I want ALL of you to read, and REALLY think about. Wait until you sort something out with the truth before making inflammitory statements in public. I will re-post what Kamikaze (Ethan) said to Keegan:
"Hey man,
It was my decision not to run Laura's article. That had nothing to do with Enhanced Media "not having enough potential"; instead, it was based purely on the standards that I'm trying to impose for articles on the front page of NS. My job is to see to it that our news is professional, well-written and relevant to the whole NS community, and unfortunately I just didn't see the article meeting that standard.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to balance our content equally between "big," professional news stories in the league of our print brethren and other pieces highlighting the projects of our members, and in no way do I want to turn down or not encourage the projects going on in the NS community. But honestly, I don't know anything about Enhanced Media, and at the moment, as a news editor, all I have to go off of is one teaser and some hype in the forums. With only that to go on, I don't want to run an article like the one Laura wrote, which contained some pretty harsh criticism of the hard work that a lot of other people put out. Whether that criticism is due or not (and believe you me, I agree with almost all of it), I can't run something like that without knowing anything about EM. I am honestly floundering with requests from smaller video companies every single week to run a press release about their trailers, to put their premieres in the calendar, etc. ad continuum, and just about every single one of them likes to talk about how unique they are. Plain and simple, I can't run an article talking about how revolutionary Enhanced Media is without having even seen the film yet.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this, and I apologize that this didn't happen in a way that would have made sense to all of us. I've been really busy and when Chris forwarded me the story, I put it on the back burner and forgot about it for a few weeks, which is why it took so long to get a response back to Laura. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, and I'd also love to see the movie!
Best,
Ethan"
So as you can see, there was a perfectly rational explanation. If someone wants to be a journalist, they have to get used to REJECTION. This is the way the world works, and how quality comes about. When your story gets rejected, you're supposed to work on it, tweak it out and re-submit again and again until you find out what makes a good story.
In this case, instead of trying harder to improve the story, there was just public bashing on us. I recieved a message from Julian this morning apologizing and seeming unhappy that his company's reputation had just gotten dragged through the mud. Keegan and fireunderwater, you both took this way too personally and blew up about it too quickly. This is the same reactionary tone that made the article get rejected.
The fact that NS is around so that you have somewhere to even have a CHANCE getting published is amazing. Think if we weren't here, and you were sending your article into Freeskier, Powder or even SBC. Think how many articles they reject every DAY.
NS is a place where you can hype yourslef up, where you can share your message of skiing with the world, a place where a small production company like EM has a chance of getting noticed. I would really appreciate it if people would stop attacking us for anything we do.
I mean think about this situation:
Article got rejected and a perfectly good explanation is above. Fireunderwater put it in her blog with a tagline at the top taking a HUGE shot at the NS admins. What did we do? Posted it on the frontpage of the site. Keegan then makes a thread tearing us to pieces. We could delete it, but no we want people to be able to express themselves. The EM guys are feeling terrible, the NSadmins are feeling terrible, everyone is feeling terrible, and here I am spending this much time writing a huge response.
Why? Because we give a shit. You guys can't even imagine how harsh the ski world would be without NS. Imagine having a small production company? Who is EVER going to hear about it? I mean even to get one half-page ad in a magazine is going to cost you at LEAST $4,000. Article about your production company? Fat chance... you've got to buddy down with the mag publishers. TV ads? Don't think so...
Just where would you get started if you didn't have NS?
---And for anyone reading this please, please, please STOP hating on the admins publicly before you've tried to sort it out with us. If you feel PMing or email won't suffice, our phone number is 514.448.2760. We live here, so give us a buzz and we'll chat about your beef.
