Okay, that was a shock value title. Well, not really. Kevin Robinson, the man behind uNCovered 3rd Public Relations did indeed go a little HAM in this video blog. In his words:

“I have been dealing with some writers/bloggers whom think they are too “busy” to respond to my e-mails when they were begging to interview my artists when they first started writing and blogging for their sites/magazines.”

“haha.

i think this is pretty awesome. but you haven’t ever thought about things from the perspective of the smaller writer/blogger’s point of view. i’ll break it down really quickly:

1. for some people, it’s a hobby and not a job.
2. for those who take it as a hobby, their e-mail response game isn’t trained like a professional, which means they don’t have a strategic approoach to their e-mails and kind of read the ones they already know what to expect, or don’t understand that they should open everything.
3. maybe that artist that you’re pitching them doesn’t catch their interest! sure, a response would be awesome, but shit, everybody got stuff to do. when you’re not getting paid for things, the entire game is different.

i think the key would be to call these guys out, so that they can rebuttal and then conversation can start. regardless, i respect this lol. i like how you took it to the internet. i also wish that more people saw this. maybe this is worth a blog post in itself…”

So here we are, with the blog post. Hopefully this sheds more light on this conversation, because I always thought about how people looked at writers / bloggers, especially when they haven’t even met them. I think people may take a non-response as a snub when sometimes it actually has nothing to do with that. It could be a mistake or miscommunication; every website doesn’t operate the same way, either. Any thoughts on this? I’m all about opening conversation up to those involved. If not here, bring it to Twitter: @DCtoBC.