What sources are we supposed to credit? Do you imagine that we simple see someone else’s post, copy it and post it on our own? It’s not that simple. There’s research and digging involved and to simply quote one source is horribly misleading. If you’re talking about in the case of this picture, it’s all over the internet, the “source” would be the Weinstein Company who made it. Why credit one website over another that has the same thing? After a while, it’s pretty much general knowledge. Besides, is it interesting to know the source? If so, why? In what case is it interesting? I understand “credit given where credit is due”, but we’re not talking about ground breaking journalism or solved mysteries. We’re talking about reporting news that is released by companies and parties, it’s not pried out of them by the cunning of a silver tongued reporter. I can read a press release the same way any grade school student can, is credit due? Is credit due to the first person to read that release? Please tell me why we should bother and in what instances? Thanks.
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Yeah, better and… bigger?
[...] So that poster is a fake. See the real movie one-sheet, from the Weinstein Company, here. [...]
Thank God…..That first poster was almost as bad as the new Day of the Dead poster…..almost.
This one is pretty kick ass. I think i want it for my apt.
Why don’t you guys EVER credit your sources?
Why do you ask?
What sources are we supposed to credit? Do you imagine that we simple see someone else’s post, copy it and post it on our own? It’s not that simple. There’s research and digging involved and to simply quote one source is horribly misleading. If you’re talking about in the case of this picture, it’s all over the internet, the “source” would be the Weinstein Company who made it. Why credit one website over another that has the same thing? After a while, it’s pretty much general knowledge. Besides, is it interesting to know the source? If so, why? In what case is it interesting? I understand “credit given where credit is due”, but we’re not talking about ground breaking journalism or solved mysteries. We’re talking about reporting news that is released by companies and parties, it’s not pried out of them by the cunning of a silver tongued reporter. I can read a press release the same way any grade school student can, is credit due? Is credit due to the first person to read that release? Please tell me why we should bother and in what instances? Thanks.
Mothraforker:
http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/2008/01/20/big-willys-zombie-gun/
http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/2008/01/18/opening-nightof-the-living-dead/
http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/2008/01/18/shacknews-does-hands-on-preview-of-left-4-dead/
http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/2008/01/17/zombies-in-spaaaaaaaaaaaace/
Here are a few examples of recent posts giving credit, with links to the original articles. We get our information from a variety of sources. Sometimes it comes directly from the source (film company, author, distributor, etc.) or from press releases sent from marketing firms/ PR companies looking to promote their product(s). Sometimes it’s just public knowledge, like “Oh, George Romero’s making a new movie” or it comes from personal experience, “I just played this really great zombie video game, I should post about it”. We also get information from other websites and we link back to original articles, interviews, etc (like in the examples above). If you are referring to the poster above, it has appeared on numerous sites, everywhere from Dread Central, Flixster, MovieWeb, and so on. Hope this helped…