Comments | miriamjoyce: Being on the receiving end of journalism

miriamjoyce

Being on the receiving end of journalism

Jun 15, 2007 08:31

Well, that sounds a little dark. In fact, of the few articles on polyamory we've been interviewed for, I'd say that this Salon article is so far the one that has done the best job accurately representing us and what we were trying to say. I'm really quite pleased. (We're at the very end.)

The rest of the article is OK too. :> In many ways I feel ( Read more... )

polyamory, journalism

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chezjake June 15 2007, 22:25:21 UTC

It's nice to know you've gotten the attention, but I'm not about to pony up $29 to read more than the first 3 paragraphs of the story. If you can email me a copy, that would be good.

If it's not free, it's not really on the Internet, IMHO.

girltreadwater June 15 2007, 22:28:35 UTC

I read it for free O_o

*confused*

miriamjoyce June 15 2007, 22:54:59 UTC

Huh. I didn't have to pay to read it. I wonder if the link the author sent me had some special code in it. In any case, you can usually read the premium content after clicking through an ad, which is what I do.

I sympathize with being annoyed about subscription sites. On the other hand, as a journalist who likes to get paid and knowing how hard it actually is to make money off ad revenue, I don't necessarily begrudge them. I think their model is off, and that it will work better if/when anyone can figure out a workable micro=payments system, but still, it's not like they're not doing work that's worth paying for.

chezjake June 16 2007, 00:37:40 UTC

No special codes. For non-subscribers it's supposed to offer you a site pass in exchange for watching an ad, but it never gave me that chance, even after I went back and temporarily disabled Ad Block in Firefox. Same thing with Safari, which doesn't have an ad block. (I *have* gotten those site pass messages on previous visits to Salon, but not on any of multiple tries tonight.

So, after that frustrating experience, Salon is on my permanent "don't eveb bother trying" list.

scry_dragonfly June 15 2007, 23:34:49 UTC

I got a little grumbly when they referred to Rebecca's sahming as "practice," as though it will be real parenting only with a child she carries, but all in all thought it was good.

miriamjoyce June 16 2007, 02:15:06 UTC

Yeah, that was goofy.

It's in line with people asking "Who's her mother?" after being told clearly that we're all her parents. We never say me. I'll say "I carried her" or "I'm the birth mother."

jwitchbaby June 16 2007, 00:25:51 UTC

Ha! Thanks for sharing my peeve on "bemused".

A decent representation. Could be better, but not bad.

I agree... serolynne June 16 2007, 01:23:14 UTC

Hello from a few paragraphs over :)

For the sake of variety in the overall poly media, I really wish she hadn't focused as much on my personal poly life in this article, and if she was going to 'feature' me - more on my role in organizing the event she attended. I was actually quite surprised to see she included so much, as I barely interviewed with her and instead referred her to several others in the community to be more of the focus of the story. But oh well.. at least she reported it all correctly.

Thanks a bunch for contributing your story to the article as well! I'm really glad this one showed a variety of poly configurations.

Re: I agree... miriamjoyce June 16 2007, 02:20:21 UTC

Hi!

I was actually quite surprised to see she included so much, as I barely interviewed with her

Yeah, I'd read the St. Pete Times piece, and so her emphasis on you seemed to me a little lazy journalistically. Oh well.