While surfing through my normal sites on Friday night, I came across RottenTomatoes.com's "Weekly Ketchup" article. I read it each week. I noticed that Rotten Tomatoes bashed ComicBookMovie.com.
"...but today, there are dozens, and they're all scrapping for their piece of buzz that will drive traffic to their URL," writes Rotten referring to other sites online including CBM.
Really?!
I may be new to the fansite side of things here at CBM, but I work for the sports site BleacherReport.com. I run two of my own sites/blogs, too, and that is the goal of EVERY site online--to attract readers and online traffic.
This is how sites make their money.
The more traffic and readers, the higher a site can charge for advertising to make more money.
"What is most likely happening here is that ComicBookMovie.com does indeed have some sort of inside source, although whether that source is reliable or not might be questionable," writes Rotten.
Of course there are several CBM writers that have their sources because some of us (not me to clarify) have those connections withing the film industry while some of us do not.
But saying "whether that source is reliable or not..." is another way of calling out CBM's credibility.
As a paid and credentialed sports writer, I know for a fact that writer's have a thing called credibility.
Some of us have more than others, but those who are really pursuing any career in journalism knows that your credibility is the one thing that you do not mess with because once a writer loses their credibility, then that is one of the hardest things to recover if it can be recovered at all.
In closing, I have to add that CBM made the No. 1 "Rotten Idea of the Week" spot and those are fighting words especially since many of us here that have fansites are quite possibly trying to branch out our talents to others to either get a career in writing or to just vent our personal opinions.
Sadly I have to say that Rotten should have given itself the No. 1 ranking as the "Rotten Idea of the Week" to call out CBM like that.
This may sound like a rant. It really is, when a site calls out another that I enjoy as much as CBM, I feel compelled to speak my mind.