The AC forums

[Millygirl]

I would like to bitch for just a moment.

I'm taking a peak into AC forums and noticed a post labeled:

"Breaking news articles rules, some clarification?"

So basically it is saying AC will accept rewritten news articles from breaking news if you label where you got your information from. However, many times that isn't always the case.

I've seen some AC news articles without any source or simply stated "According to major news media", etc.

Some may throw in a few opinions (which doesn't make it completely news worthy to begin with).

How is this any different from what we do? When I rewrite an article I make sure to throw in some of my opinions and sometimes even link back to the person's article or product being spoken about.

Yet, our rewritten articles are crap?

Whatever. Those men and women over at AC are such hypocrites!

Sorry, just needed to bitch and now I'm off for a cup of hot chocolate!

 

[srb888]

This is precisely the reason that I've decided to stay away from A*C. It the same ol' story... they treated me the same way... there was this major (real major) breaking news one day and I got it while the whole US was sleeping. I wrote about it in the finest way and added some 'history' about the person in news using mixed data from at least 4 other news sites IN MY OWN words. Of course I cited those sources. All I got was (after almost 30 hours!!!) the same cra*p -- old data, can be found on internet --- something of this sort!!

Come on, stupid A*C, I couldn't have reinvented the history of that person! All the NEWS channels were giving the same version about that person, I still managed an attractive yet totally different approach to the big story. Of course, A*C had absolutely no story on that breaking news -- I knew because I was watching for any new submissions on A*C every half hour or so for almost 4 hours or more.

I don't want to undergo that treatment again from those bas*ds. Then they asked me to go for 'display only' -- "breaking news!!!!"... after 30 or more hours!

And one thing to mention here... Handling Breaking NEWS is nothing new for me! I have worked for a major newspaper in their real 'rush-hour' department many many years ago (1987) -- handling (digital processing of incoming flashes from teleprinters) --- b-r-e-a-k-i-n-g n-e-w-s!!! Those ??"AC news editors"?? weren't even born then!

 

[redtide1969]

That's exactly why I don't submit "real news" stories to AC. It doesn't matter whether they're well written and researched, it's always 50/50 as to if they'll be accepted or not. Like I talk about in the book, "fake it" in order to "make it" lol.