================================================ Subject: Re: my reaction to the mean review From: "Alexis M." To: Date: Thu 29 Nov 2001 19:02:17 -0800 ================================================ Very nicely written Lindsay, that should make him bite his tongue. ;) But seriously, I never saw anything wrong with the news article. A little on the elementary side, but funny nonetheless. Alex On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:08:57 -0500 Lindsay Hurni writes: > Dear Mr. Woomer and the The Michigan Daily, > > First and foremost, I would like to compliment Mr. Woomer > for proving a > point to the readers of his recent review of the new Creed album, > "Weathered." He did not prove the album’s worth or the band’s > worth, > however, he did prove his worth as a writer. Plain and simple, this > guy must > not know anything about journalistic ethics, writing skills, or how > to write > a music review. > Coming from a college newspaper that has won many Pacemaker > awards, > including one last month, I am utterly disappointed that a college > newspaper > would publish such a disgustlingly opinionated piece of work. > I write music reviews. I include opinion…but the one thing I > do when I > review a CD is listen to the album. Mr. Woomer obviously did not > listen to > the album, because his review makes no comment about the music. > Instead it > continues to bash the band, its past and its fans. > What is obvious, however, is that Mr. Woomer has an ignorant > and immature > hate for the band Creed. If someone is this opinionated about a > band to > begin with, they should not be assigned to the review. > The irony of it all is that Creed has debuted at the No. 1 > spot on the > Billboard charts. It sold over 887,000 albums the first week after > the > release of "Weathered." This album is only second to N’Sync’s > "Celebrity" > which is in first for most record sales in a week, beating out > Britney > Spears’ spot. People are buying this album. Mr. Woomer obviously > bought > this album, unless he did what I suspect – not even listening to it > at all! > I will offer you a lesson of advice. Go into a CD review > with an open mind. > Give every band the benefit of the doubt. And surely don’t use the > word > e." I took the time to look the word up in the dictionary and to my > surprise it did not exist. Do not make up words, Mr. Woomer. It > only ruins > your credibility and makes you look foolish. > Another point I have to make is that the headline: > "Singlehandedly > defining new ‘suckcore’ genre: Weathered, Creed; Wind-Up Records," > is the > most hideous headline I have ever read in the history of my > journalism > profession. First and foremost, it is not a complete thought…which > headlines > are supposed to be. Second, the headline contains many errors. 1) > Single-handedly – this word is hyphenated. I didn’t even have to > look that > up. 2) Like I said before, suckcore is not a word. 3) ‘Weathered’ > should > have appeared with single quotes around it. And I’m not sure why you > have a > semi-colon before Wind-Up Records. > I am not a fan of Britney Spears, but I gave the album the > benefit of the > doubt. I went in with an open mind. In the end, when the album > proved no > talent, I decided the grade. I did not give the grade at the > beginning > before I listened to it. That is unethical. > Mr. Woomer wrote: "Tell me it’d be hard to find a > 15-year-old who couldn’t > out-write Stapp." I’m not so sure a college student like yourself > could > out-write Scott Stapp. > I’m not sure if I missed out on this, but if you use God’s > name in your > music, does it mean you are a Christian band? If I’m not mistaken, > the > answer is no. Creed is not a Christian band. If Mr. Woomer had > done his > background checking, like most professional journalists, he would > have known > that. What is wrong with having a faith in God anyway? There is > obviously > something deeply wrong with Mr. Woomer. Call it jealousy, an > immature hate, > or just plain stupidity, from my point of view, it seems Mr. Woomer > could > use a little God in his life. Tell me "Woomy", what are YOU so > depressed > about? > From what he writes, he has a profound hate for the world > around him. Is > Grand Rapids that bad? You lie in the bed you make, Mr. Woomer. If > you > don’t like your fate, change it! > What one needs to realize is that this world is in constant > motion and > everything within it is changing. We can not expect music to not > change > with it. If every band that came out wrote songs like Woody Guthrie > and Bob > Marley, people like Mr. Woomer would be doing the same thing. > They’d make > the same harsh and rash comments about those artists trying to be > like on > another as they do with Creed and Pearl Jam. > To bash the band, its family, its fans and even Americans > who fly American > flags from their cars is totally out of line. What is wrong with > some > unity? It is people like Mr. Woomer that cause hate and violence. > I sure hope Mr. Woomer does not hope to pursue a career in > journalism. If > he does, he has a lot to learn. Even if he did, his recent review > of the > new Creed album is not even worthy to lie next to a portfolio. Its > worth is > the bottom of a Dumpster. For a newspaper that is quite small (no > one has > heard of it), I would expect to see publication with pride. Try to > make a > name for yourself. That should be everyone’s goal. Creed made a > name. Mr. > Woomer surely is not helping you make yours. > As a journalism student I am aware that Mr. Woomer practiced > his writes to > the First Amendment. Now I am practicing mine. The difference > between him > and the rest of the world, is that the latter are tactful. By the > way, I am > one of the 887,000 FANS that purchased the Creed album at 12 a.m. on > Nov. > 20. I have never heard an album with such passion and talent. > Unfortunately for Mr. Woomer, Creed will be a band his grandchildren > hear > about years after he fails at his journalism profession. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp