Comments on: Brian Hibbs' Column is at CBR Now!

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:40:10 +0000

Come on, what big comic website ISNâ€™T filled with press releases?

So you really canâ€™t single Newsarama out for that.

True... BUT, you've got to blind not to notice the drop in quality over at newsarama.
I've always preferred CBR, but they used to have stuff that no one else did... and now they don't (except for the racist interviewer).
They also used to be a little better at hiding the press release nature of their site.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:25:47 +0000

Newsarama has new ownership now. There are bound to be a few glitches as they absorb the new paradigm.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:36:16 +0000

True. But I do fault them for so rarely going beyond what's in the press release ... for serving, as it were, to adjuncts to the PR people.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:29:22 +0000

Come on, what big comic website ISN'T filled with press releases?

So you really can't single Newsarama out for that.

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:40:39 +0000

Yeah â€” itâ€™s not called Newsreleasearama for no reason â€¦

And I get that. But they used to have at least good coverage of con panels, regular features like Hibbs' column and I trusted them to actually, y'know, read the log of e-mailed softball questionnaire they call an interview to see if the interviewer might have said something that might be construed as offensive to the interviewee and audience. The loss of Hibbs' column, for me, is a sobering portent because I thought he brought the point of view of the retailers and provided a necessary critical voice that stirred up the mix of puff pieces and provided some actual analysis. It's CBR's gain, but CBR has great analysis already.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:34:48 +0000

People who can type call it NewsreleasearAma, even.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:17:56 +0000

Yeah -- it's not called Newsreleasearma for no reason ...

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:57:25 +0000

yes, newsarama used to be such a sterling example of journalism

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:05:40 +0000

What the heck's going on with Newsarama? First that idiotic question asked of Paul Cornell (and the 'these aren't the droids you're looking for, move along' tactics used to obliterate even the memory of it), convention coverage where 'quality control' has not been an understood concept and now they've lost Brian Hibbs, who wrote one of my favourite features there (even when the economics fly over my head!) Ah well, this is definitely CBR's gain in this case.