: Dear Vox, please don't fall for PR hits
I used to work at my college newspaper. We (yes, even we, a shitty
student paper) used to constantly get emails from local music venues and
restaurants soliciting coverage. If you haven’t seen one of these press
release type things before, the trick they use is to write it in the exact
format of a news article, e.g. this random Apple press release that begins CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA –.
We all sucked ass at our jobs, but a core part of educating the freshmen was instructing them not to just copy the press release word for word, even though it was the perfect length to fit in our newspaper, because that’s exactly the temptation that the press release is trying to trap you with. Don’t do it! First of all it’s plagiarism, second of all it’s lazy as fuck, and third of all we are supposed to be objective and provide a perspective on the art gallery or whatever that isn’t, you know, the perspective of the guy who is trying to sell the art in the art gallery.
Anyway, it seems like Vox didn’t really get this lesson. A recent episode of their daily news podcast is called The big business of small streamers and literally the whole episode is about this TV reality show thing called Dropout and how popular it is, how the CEO is an ultra homie and very down to earth, how his whole motivation in life is profit sharing and being the most ethical, and how their audience—who are also Queer btw :)—loves the show so much that they complained when the show grandfathered existing subscribers in at the old price when they increased the subscription cost because they wanted to “support the actors.” Give me a fucking break, nobody is falling for that shit! Dropout was created by College Humor—you know, the massive media platform from 2010. It is not small, it is not some random “streamer,” it is a business with a marketing department and corporate credit cards.
OK, purpose of this post was so I could do something with this word art generator. Dear Vox,
