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Amplifier Magazine
I was thinking of taking a writing job with them (Amplifier has always been one of my favorite music rags), and then I ran across this article :
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/amplifier_magaz.html
It's old news, but still. I was never aware.
Thoughts or opinions?
I'm sort of past the point of really caring about my own credibility (ha), and I still like Amplifier. But. I'm kind of disturbed.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/amplifier_magaz.html
It's old news, but still. I was never aware.
Thoughts or opinions?
I'm sort of past the point of really caring about my own credibility (ha), and I still like Amplifier. But. I'm kind of disturbed.
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Permalink Reply by C. Eric Banister on -
I'm new here so I am just catching up.
I have had my own experience with this. I wrote an article for a small music magazine (I don't want to name names) a few years ago and was very proud oif it. It was a fairly in-depth interview with a guitarist with a lot of history and the story ended up being nearly 9 pages when printed. The editor (and magazine owner, and sales guy, etc) loved it and was going to make it the cover story. I was excited because it was to be my first cover story! Then as the issue went to press the editor told me they wouldn't be putting the guitarist on the cover, but rather James Brown. Brown had died two months before, but there wasn't even a James Brown story in the whole magazine! When I questioned him he responded that an advertiser told him he would buy the whole back cover, front and back, if he put JB on the cover. And so it goes.
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