Comments on: NME.com “do” the News Diamond http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/16/nmecom-do-the-news-diamond/ A conversation. Wed, 23 May 2012 15:16:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The (e)Grommet » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-16 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/16/nmecom-do-the-news-diamond/#comment-5071 The (e)Grommet » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-16 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:40:04 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/?p=1087#comment-5071 [...] NME.com “do” the News Diamond « Online Journalism Blog The News Diamond in practical application (tags: nme journalism online newsdiamond PaulBradshaw OnlineJournalismBlog) [...] [...] NME.com “do” the News Diamond « Online Journalism Blog The News Diamond in practical application (tags: nme journalism online newsdiamond PaulBradshaw OnlineJournalismBlog) [...]

]]> By: Jon Bounds http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/16/nmecom-do-the-news-diamond/#comment-5072 Jon Bounds Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:10:09 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/?p=1087#comment-5072 Fascinating, I must say I don't "get" NME.com as a general rule - it lacks much of what I admire (or admired when I was a regular buyer 5/10 years ago) in the paper version, features, depth. NME.com articles may feed into in-depth paper ones, but there's little on the site. Music journalism is facing even bigger pressures than news journalism, lots of people are happy to just go off and listen to what years-ago we'd have to have read about and decide we wanted to listen to. Major sites like the NME have the bigger problem that they can't condone the practices that most of their readership get up to – I could have downloaded the album a week ago – they could of course have reviewed it before official release. To do so would jeopardise their relationship with the record companies. Completely off topic, but I've typed it now ;) Fascinating, I must say I don’t “get” NME.com as a general rule – it lacks much of what I admire (or admired when I was a regular buyer 5/10 years ago) in the paper version, features, depth. NME.com articles may feed into in-depth paper ones, but there’s little on the site.

Music journalism is facing even bigger pressures than news journalism, lots of people are happy to just go off and listen to what years-ago we’d have to have read about and decide we wanted to listen to.

Major sites like the NME have the bigger problem that they can’t condone the practices that most of their readership get up to – I could have downloaded the album a week ago – they could of course have reviewed it before official release. To do so would jeopardise their relationship with the record companies.

Completely off topic, but I’ve typed it now ;)

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