Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: Re: Technical Question about Press Style
sardisson wrote:
, do we need to change "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE" to something like "FOR RELEASE ON $release_date"?
Is that how the press stuff works?
Smokey
Well, more or less. But in my experience, media is not very happy for "release on $release_date" or any kind of influence on how and when they "print stories". (This might be a local thing, but I think not. I guess it has something to do with the increased competition between different media channels and the need for exclusive stories.) I think that media consider that they can publish a story as soon as the like, to be the first to bring the news.
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: Re: Technical Question about Press Style
knutkja wrote:
Well, more or less. But in my experience, media is not very happy for "release on $release_date" or any kind of influence on how and when they "print stories". (This might be a local thing, but I think not. I guess it has something to do with the increased competition between different media channels and the need for exclusive stories.) I think that media consider that they can publish a story as soon as the like, to be the first to bring the news.
AFAICR, you can put the press release to a date. If you do not specifiy it is under embargo until then, the press can run with it as they please. Used to be that media respected your dates to increasew the chance you'd send them something again later. That has pretty much gone, aided by increased leaking.
But why would we worry? If you state it will be released on the 22nd, nobody will report before then, unless it is one of those 'much anticipated preview' articles. Software related press know their reader will want to download it right after reading (or not). Only thing we might do it put up a notice on the download page that it 1.1 wil be released at X, so that anyone who reads an early article is not deceived and starts complaining.
The whole point behind press releases is that the press has time to prepare the article. That is what we want, so why worry? It might be good to not at the bottom that the latest RC with all the patches wil be equivalent to 1.1 final, so any press can actually test it .
my 2 cents.
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Isn't there a newer thread where we're collecting these mentions? If so, we should probably change that link....
Smokey
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