So this is the ‘new’ Music journalism?
Online music magazine Contact Music puts out the call for aspiring music journalists:
Get your work published – Write for Contactmusic
Do you have a voice? Are you passionate about music, film and or games? If so…join the Contactmusic creative team!
Air your opinions to a huge worldwide audience of over 2 million people per month. You will also be considered for gig guest lists, festival tickets, launch parties, movie preview screenings, press junkets, shows and conferences etc.
If you want to break into the world of journalism this is a great start!
Unfortunately, in this post-modern world, ‘passion’ seems to more valued than understanding and knowledge. In other words, as long as you’re demonstrably excitable and enthusiastic (and can type ‘google.com’), who cares if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about? Or, as the case may be, who the fuck you’re talking about!
Jesus, people! Anyone who has any business writing about music, knows that Neil Morrissey is an actor. This is Morrissey, the musician!
Comments
| 28 September, 2009, 12:08 pm |
Funny about the pic caption, but everyone makes mistakes. But you’re coming across as right bitter old fart about the advert!
| 28 September, 2009, 12:35 pm |
“But you’re coming across as right bitter old fart about the advert!”
Maybe, but I really do resent that *journalism* is being sold where something as subjective as “passion” warrants a mention and expertise or ability to do research doesn’t, or worse, that journalism is regarded as a vehicle to “air your opinions to a huge worldwide audience” – and is sold as such to aspiring journalists.
We see what happens when subjective and opinionated so-called journalism, driven by a reporter’s “passions”, infects hard news and political reporting. Which it does. More frequently now than ever.
| 28 September, 2009, 10:05 pm |
My first reaction is that they’re perfectly aware of that it’s the ‘wrong morrisey’ and are having a laugh at the sort of person who gets wound up about that sort of thing. Iirc Smash Hits used to do this sort of thing quite often presumably to thumb it’s nose at over serious readers of competing music periodicals.
| 29 September, 2009, 10:06 pm |
Nah, I’ve worked in similar places. Chalk this up to cock up.
| 30 September, 2009, 12:12 pm |
The ginger fella in the background looks like me, apart from the fact that I am as bald as a fucking coot.
| 3 October, 2009, 7:54 pm |
In the week that the London Evening Standard announced its mutation to a freebie enviromental problem. And when Private Eye makes jokes about the Guardian being written by unpaid interns.
This is the new print media journalism period!!!
| 30 June, 2010, 2:30 am |
Sometimes Passion alone isn’t enough. Talent plays a very important factor, which I believe is either honed or inborn. Passion alone will not take you far, thorough understanding and knowledge plays an essential role.
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