What is news?
Posted by
Daniel J. Mount in
Commentary on
03 12th, 2008 |
32 Comments
As some of you may have suspected, I posted a fairly routine press release yesterday for a reason. I’ve been wondering what exactly constitutes news, or, more precisely, what makes an item in our genre newsworthy.
The standard press releases–website re-designs, label signings, publicity deals, et...
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