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Swallowing Frames

Here's a journalist who just writes what he's told by the music industry - Adam Pasick of Reuters:

The music industry, damaged by illegal downloading since the creation of Napster in the late 1990s, has fought back by aggressively targeting file-trading and offering legal alternatives such as Apple's market-leading iTunes Music Store.

Let's not worry about the now-established facts that the decline in the music industry is to do with their own choices. This journalist has swallowed their frame in totality - those opinions he has cited (note that block portrays itself as accepted fact) bear no relation to the facts I have read from IFPA itself. Here's what he might have written:

The music industry, left behind by the internet age when Napster heralded the emergence of new opportunities, has seen a decline in revenue as their outdated approaches to the market have failed even to embrace the success of Apple's iTunes Music Store. Rather than correcting their own failure, though, they have lashed out at the very fans they hope to sell to, creating a growing alienation that now impacts their remaining sales.

There. Much better.

posted at 2:01 PM (UK) | |