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TuneCore should be railing against the commenters on Digital Music News. That's where the real industry hackery is going on.

Is that what this is?  A trade magazine?  Hmmm...

Hey, if they want fair coverage, tell them to lobby Congress to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, then we can be rid of conservative Fox News and liberal MSNBC too.

It starts there.

I like TuneCore, but I think they're wrong on all accounts here. And I really don't enjoy paying for ads on pirate sites!

However, I'm not sure why it's so important to discuss He Who Shall Not Be Named, or any other former TuneCore employee.

Why not move on?

(Goes for Mr. Price, too.)

Sounds like Tunecore is being run by regular business people now.  Good for them.

So....

All the GrooveShark execs moved to tunecore ?

Or does Paul just really need better deodorant ?

It's not show friends, it's show business.

Does Tunecore need a hanky for their boo-boos?

As a PR person, I can tell you that Engelmayer's statement:  "Your 'reporting' belies certain journalistic integrities as it wantonly accepts a singular narrative, when you must know that there are always varying points of view; and, in some cases, matters that are in reality, inappropriate for public debate," is a bias that is vefy well-known among other PR people working with companies in the digital music space.

honestly.. From my perspective and opinion..

I would say they have a point.. it very possible its pure coincidence,

but it does "look like" digital music news has an 'axe to grind' with tunecore.. You do seem to lean to one side when oppurtunity presents itself ;-)

just sayin..

Nah, Paul "leans" whichever way will create a buzz.  He's likely nothing against TuneCore really (nor against anyone else he aims his digital type against today).  He's just after the "juicy" angle.  Believe me, it is obvious to anyone who has ever been on the inside of a story that DMN is reporting on that Paul isn't practicing journalism.  He'd be more accurately compared to a gossip columnist than a news reporter.  

Paul is a blogger writing opinions, editorial, half-truths and hearsay.  And the fact is that by doing so HE IS DOING HIS JOB. 

One shouldn't confuse the fact that the word news is in the name of his publication with the fact that he is practicing journalism.  He's not (and I hope and believe he'd agree).

Paul's DMN is a blog and an effective one at that.  His "job" is to write whatever will draw eyeballs.  Those eyeballs turn into ads.  Those ads feed Paul.  The same agenda drives "journalistic" publications but there is a standard - fact checking, confirming sources and all that - which separates one from the other. 

Has it ever occured to the artists that todays music is bland  boring, corporate and it really sucks?

I am a dj and I am shocked so many "artists"  can make any money at all....they should bow down and kiss the ground.

I have NO symphathy....I need MUSIC TODAY... good danceable music with real instruments.....anyone know any bands that play this long forgotten genre?

PS any band still know what  guitar solo is?

too busy whining about youtube and the rest of the interwebnets

"good danceable music with real instruments"

It's funny, I've heard many strange instruments over the years but never a fake one.

Has it ever occured to you that part of the problem is most DJ's do nothing to support the music industry besides playing the same crap that the top40 stations play?

instead of being spoon fed, more DJ's need to actively look for and find small label and indie musicians.. THEN SUPPORT AND PLAY THEM!

until then, DJ's will have no relevance to todays music industry.. (besides the break through DJ's that create their own music)

DMN does seem to have covered evry single piece about Tunecore over the last year in not too favourable a light whilst seemingly publishing so many fluff articles about Ditto that its almost become the Ditto blog.

To put so many articles (good and bad) about two very small DIY digital distribution companies does seem a little strange.

Where are the articles about FUGA, Believe, InGrooves, AWAL, Orchard, Essential, PIAS etc all of whom vastly outnumber the aforementioned in market share?,

yes. "Where ARE the articles about FUGA, Believe, InGrooves, AWAL, Orchard, Essential, PIAS etc all of whom vastly outnumber the aforementioned in market share?,"

Yawn - this is not news. 

Thank you for letting me know that Juda Engelmeyer is a guy. I can now take him seriously! I was all set to assume that this was some dumb broad writing jibberish but now I know that this is a man and I can respectfully read what he has written. Thank you for saving me the embarrassment of mistakenly ignoring something because I assumed it was from a woman. 

Half of the articles on Digital Music News are about Digital Music News.

I mean to say pirate bay site...sorry...not operate site...and also  soory about typos...I could not see the corrections or mispelled words...and rambled on too...

 As a journalist, I'll back Paul fully versus this kind of utter arrogance on 5W's part. No news organization would agree to the constraints they attermpted to put on their interview offer. But I gotta agree, identifying his antagonist's gender was pointless at best.

What a bunch of children.   Once a week I have to scroll pass this tunecore crap to get to anything of value.  Thanks for the waste...you're getting close to being banned from my corporations in-box...as I don't want my staff wasting their time with this!

Grooveshark's fight with Digital Music News was a complete disaster on so many levels.  I'm hearing it's just the lawyers running down the shot clock billing as much as they can before the bankruptcy lawyers and vultures come a' knockin. 

This particular article IS a 'gossip' article instead of news, and so what!?... Paul can write an opinion piece if he wants, and so can you! Blog, tweet, make a facebook post, start your own music industry news website... just so happens that Paul's forum is Digital Music News.

Regarding the issue: Who cares if DMN slams TuneCore!? It's an opinion. Get over it. Likewise, who cares if TuneCore looks down on DMN and does not approve what is said about them. The entire scenario represents the beauty and value of FREE SPEECH.

I don't always agree with Paul nor does his writing style always appeal to me, BUT I fuckin LOVED how Paul handled Juda in the email exchange! Go Paul ;) 

... and so why do I read DMN??? Because MANY others in the biz do, and it behooves me to stay current on what is being discussed whether it is top quality journalism or not.