[NewMusic] best of

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of Michael Zelner
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] best of

John's in France right now, on tour with The Molecules (yay).
But here's what he posted to the list the last time this subject came up
here:

>I can't speak for the express/weekly/new times, but (as a veteran
>employee) I can say that having an ad in the Guardian will not in any
>way increase/decrease your chances of getting a feature or a blurb.
>standard editorial ethics obviously frown on such behavior, not to
>mention the fact that the idiosyncracies at work pretty much guarantee
a
>fairly marked separation between what goes on in the ad dept. and what
>goes on in (esp. the music related) editorial dept. in short the
editors
>& writers could give a shit about the ads, unless they don't show up
and
>the number of column inches gets cut and half their story gets axed.
>besides, that i know for a fact that the music editors and some writers
>at the BG are definitely aware of the 'transbay' scene and from time to
>time they have, and fingers crossed, may very well again toss us a
>biscuit. but putting an ad in the paper will not help those chances.

<http://music.mills.edu/pipermail/newmusic/2002-October/015131.html>


PG:
That reads as Pravda - when I made my comment about ads = exposure, I
was talking about the Express' policy - not the Guardian's policy - who
seem to try to be "fair", whatever that means. Usually it means the
writer has to be excited about writing about the subject. It's too bad
Silke Tudor moved to NY - she was starting to pay more attention to the
transbay scene...