If they weren't such worthless, hipster, non-minority-hiring-d-bags . . . I might actually feel sorry for staff at The Pitch.
Their latest "maneuver" is obviously an attempt to fire even more writers and replace them with "social media" and online filler . . . Even better . . . There's a party to celebrate it tonight at Screenland!!!
I was wondering why The Pitch had yet to really promote Like Me.net . . . Maybe it's because this kind of platform will render even more writers at the "alternative" paper obsolete.
And that's really the future of the written word as far as "news" or daily content goes . . . Isn't it? IN THE WORLD OF ONLINE PUBLISHING, THE PLATFORM TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE WRITER, NEWSIE OR EXPERIENCED REVIEWER!!!
The Pitch seems to be following the lead of The Huffington Post and exploiting the fact that in the future there's no reason to pay anyone to write up-to-the-minute content i.e. news.
So I hope Pitch staffers have a great time at their party tonight . . . Because the move to user generated content reveals the priorities of their parent company. The only hope for the d-bags working at The Pitch lies in the fact that the blog experiments of the local rag haven't been met with much enthusiasm so this Internets endeavor could fail along the same lines. If it's successful and The Pitch becomes nothing more than a portal for crappy online reviews saddled with sleazy advertisements . . . Then my homegirl Nadia "MY BLACK FASHION DESIGNER BOYFRIEND WILL KILL YOU THE NEXT TIME YOU CALL ME A CHICKEN HEAD" Pflaum might soon find herself in a different section of the weekly paper.
Too bad developing original voices and doing some quality reporting make for a crappy business model. Or at the very least I was hoping The Pitch could try to offer content like an exquisitely NSFW photo gallery of UK models Lucy Pinder and Sophie Howard doing some experimenting of their own.
You know Tony, if you weren't such an asshole people might pay attention to you. Some of what you have written is actually thoughtful.
ReplyDeleteAdapt or die.
ReplyDeleteWell...you're here. Enjoy the blog!!!!
ReplyDeleteyo that whore nadia is such a horrible excuse for a journalist. it doesnt suprize me that she hates on you tony, she hates on every real ass mother fucker in the "hip hop" community. she always sends me messages like that on my myspace. the whole "style girls" network smells like a sewer. come and get me hipsters.
ReplyDeletenadia be a ho an puta jus like de sanchez!
ReplyDeleteNadia needs to wash that hole of hers....smells worse than my dick cheese!!!! Whewwwwww girl!!!!
ReplyDeletethat fat ass, PHIL, "sike the dike" wont do shit. If he tries to get hyphy on my favorite local writer, he's gonna find himself begging to get his ass sent back to NY or where ever the fuck he claims to be from.
ReplyDeleteLaugh all you want, but it's a pretty well-known fact at The Star that Ink is sucking a terrific amount of business away from The Pitch.
ReplyDeleteThis was a Diana Kander marketing idea.
ReplyDeleteprinting the pitch at the star was smart for the star. not so much for the pitch. the ink has worked them over.
ReplyDeletesoon the star will be printing the stl version too.
poor pitch. they dog on the star at every turn. meanwhile the star sucks them in to their web and slowly makes them disappear.