General Discussion : 35036


General / 35036	35035 \| 35037

Subject:	Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:50:46 GMT
Viewed:	1243 times

In lugnet.general, Kevin Wilson writes: > What Richie is objecting to, and I agree with him, is that you "review" a > set without actually owning or building it, and make statements in the > review which are plain wrong. That's not a review. You really should state > on the page that you are going by the box picture, not real experience with > the set. I would have to agree. You can certainly editorialise or write for entertainment value if you choose, but I think when you start using the word "review", you have undertaken an obligation to structure your article in a certain way. Honest journalism implies certain things about a "review". Paramount is that the review is based on actual experience, not conjecture... and a very close second is that your article clearly label what is factual (the dimensions are thus and such) and clearly label what is opinion. Else you do your readers a disservice. Unless of course those readers have no expectations of truth whatever, which I would say is a bad expectation to set. There is much to condemn in a Jack Stone set, I suspect. But to do a proper job of it you are going to have to hold your nose and actually acquire one somehow in order to examine it closely and discuss it. Note that I didn't say "buy"... TLC may well be persuaded to give you one gratis if your site is a legitimate review site... (stranger things *have* happened). Perhaps you could borrow one from a mundane who didn't know better? Or something. But a review without factual basis isn't a review, it's a diatribe. Entirely different animal. ++Lar

Message has 1 Reply:

		Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
(...) I see your point Larry. But the Expert Builder site isn't journalism... it's a guerilla marketing campaign. :) (...) I tried to set low expectations. I am not out to deceive anyone, just give a chance for other voices to be heard. It's really (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)

Message is in Reply To:

		Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
Allan Bedford wrote in message ... (...) were (...) Nobody minds a provocative and not necessarily kind review. There are enough of them posted on lugnet.reviews to make that obvious. Nobody minds you objecting to Jack Stone - many of us agree with (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)

63 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact

Custom Search