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You don't ask journalists to change their articles to make the subject look good. That's just NOT ok, even without the explicit threat.


On the one hand, you're right (and I appreciate the response rather than the downvote!).

On the other hand...

I'm an amateur writer (I admit, this is far from a journalist). Sometimes I'm just wrong, or I write something that ends up coming across differently than I expected. I always welcome feedback, even if I disagree with it, or I think it might be driven by some bias. It doesn't mean that I'm going to change it. But without such feedback, I'm not sure I'd ever get better. I guess I'm worried that in your world, journalist would be living in an ivory tower.

This constantly happens. People submit editorials with their opinion about what others wrote. People write-in to journalist all the time - to agree or disagree.

A movie review isn't an objective piece of pure journalism. It's much more of a subjective editorial, and as such, should be open to far more feedback.


There's a difference between feedback and 'change your article'.


Not to mention the feedback was "we don't like that you didn't absolutely love our movie."




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