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| From | "Matt Whitby" <matt.whitby@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: anyone know anything more |
| Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:09:13 +0000 |
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I've never read Amplifier (actually i've never heard of it) so forgive
me question, but...
If he offered it to someone else then isn't that like saying "Ok hands
up - who likes this album the most? You? Ok great - you can write
the article then."
Isn't that as much of a distortion as changing an article?
M
p.s. Am I the only person on this list that hasn't written for this magazine?
On 18/01/07, Will Harris <NonStopPop@cox.net> wrote:
> >I echo Kevin's sentiment. I write for Amp and my reviews have never been
> >tampered with; nor have I ever been asked to skew anything one way or
> >another.
>
> I've never been asked to skew anything, but I did have Joe politely let me
> know that he wouldn't be using my semi-pan of the last Sounds album because
> he wanted to do a big feature on the band, and that he was going to have
> someone else write the review instead. But he never asked me to change it,
> and I really respected that...and although I don't recall who ended up
> writing the review in the end, I have no reason to believe that they offered
> anything less than their own opinion on the record. (I know a lot of people
> who loved that disc...and it wasn't like I hated it; I just felt like it was
> so similar to the previous album that it might as well have been recorded at
> the same sessions.)
>
> Best,
>
> WILL
>
>
>
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