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post #1 of 15
3/23/03 at 6:46am
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... normally I don't like bashing Ain't It Cool News, but could it hurt the guy to check some of his news stories before posting them as "first looks"?

click this <a href="http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14796" target="_blank">link</a> to see what I'm talking about.

not even a fucking link to where it first appeared!
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post #2 of 15
3/23/03 at 6:54am
That is pretty bad, but sad to say, fairly typical of AICN.
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post #3 of 15
3/23/03 at 7:00am
Yep, this is nothing new for Knowles. He regularly posts images/scoops after they've been on other sites about a week or two, then claims they are 'First Look Exclusives'. One of the many reasons I hate that site.
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post #4 of 15
3/23/03 at 1:19pm
Wow, pretty fuckin' sad. I really don't know if there's much more to say about that.

Oh, and just to refresh all of you who are new to the board...

<a href="http://www.creature-corner.com/news3/mar14gingersnaps2.php3" target="_blank">HERE'S OUR EXCLUSIVE</a>

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post #5 of 15
3/23/03 at 2:48pm
This is sad, particularly given Nick's many positive comments and defense of AICN over the past year. Recently I think he even said something like "We're in this together" ...

Given that, do you think Harry knows he screwed CHUD or is it just laziness - i.e., people send him things that debuted on other sites, and because he hasn't visited the other sites and doesn't check first, he doesn't "know" he's screwing them? Maybe that's a meaningless question at the end of the day.
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post #6 of 15
3/23/03 at 2:55pm
It's possible that someone sent him the info pretending to be an exclusive. I don't know how up on other sites the guy is. Let's not assume he STOLE it.
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post #7 of 15
3/23/03 at 4:29pm
There is some creative wording in that article, but NOWHERE does he say it's an AICN exclusive.
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post #8 of 15
3/23/03 at 4:31pm
I just looked at the AICN page again. It says, "first image," rather than "first look." The distinction is subtle, but "first image" doesn't necessarily imply exclusive or first time seen anywhere, just the first image that's been made public. Read that way, Harry didn't break any formal rules (if there are any in this biz). However, it was lame of him not to have known that a "friendly site" like CHUD/Creature Corner did have an exclusive on this some time ago or, if he did know, not to give them a nod. So ... not dastardly, just disappointing.
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post #9 of 15
3/23/03 at 5:19pm
What a waste of bandwidth, sometime I wonder if the end justifies the means in regards to this type of journalism. The site is just losing what little credibility it has one theft at a time.
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post #10 of 15
3/23/03 at 6:55pm
It's been pointed out in the Talkbacks. If Ryan or Butane sent a (non-confrontational) email about it, he'd probably amend the article.

You can't expect him to read every site on the internet. Hell, I barely read AICN anymore myself.
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post #11 of 15
3/23/03 at 8:13pm
He doesn't have to ready every site on the net, just the 5 or 6 that actually count. That includes the corner.
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post #12 of 15
3/23/03 at 8:25pm
He's either with us or against us, huh?
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post #13 of 15
3/23/03 at 10:06pm
Quote:
Devin hates Saddam, hates the war:
He's either with us or against us, huh?
His readers just need liberated.
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post #14 of 15
3/24/03 at 4:37am
Gee, and its cropped perfectly so you cant see where exactly the picture came from. What an ass.
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post #15 of 15
3/24/03 at 5:16am
I guess Harry is Fat doesn't read this forum - he'd have been in here dry humping this thread as soon as it started.
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