the(new)mediaslut

ITJourno Asia recently came under fire from a journalist who highlighted the ITJourno Asia team did not respect his wishes to keep mum about his pending departure from his current publisher.

However, by addressing the journalist, both via phone calls, emails and entering a comment on this journalist’s blog, they have turned a negative post into a positive one.

From eBolasaurus Rex (after ITJ addressed the journalist) :

Oh, and to my dear Milton Sau of ITJ, thanks for proving to me that you have no integrity whatsoever.

I understand that you want to attract readers, but sensationalizing the issue just isn’t the way to do things, especially since I specifically pleaded with you to NOT say anything about the matter, at least not yet.

Is holding off on the hoo-haa for another two months or so, so hard to do? One thing to take back from this though, is that ITJ will now take its place on my personal shit-list.

(ITJourno Asia’s response can be found in the entry under comments.)

ITJourno writes about the movement within the IT media industry in the region and thus it is their job to scoop the movement before it becomes an official press releases.

The editorial team could have waited two months and respected the journo’s decision not to write about it, but in two months time, is that worthy of being classified as news?

Similarly, if the blogger, presumably from a IT mag, was given a consumer product to review that was already launched two months ago, would that be news? 

Since eBloasaurus blogger have already highlighted in an earlier post that he/she is leaving, the blogger should have taken the opportunity to give it a positive spin, for both the blogger and the blogger’s publisher.

The blogger could have commented like "Yes, I am leaving but I enjoyed my time at this company. I can’t bear to leave the company but I would like to gain more experience. Who knows what the future lies, I could one day work again for this company and the experience I gained would benefit the company most."

Currently, the blogger’s "cloak and dagger" approach might have created a perception within the industry all is not well between this blogger and his/her existing publisher.

Perception, as they say, is reality.