So Tony from LAist left a nice little missive in my comments section overnight. Apparently he objected to the utter complete and total destruction of the digital reach-around piece LAist wrote for Netfux…

as long as reviews like that keep getting us on the front page of Digg, ive got no problems with such reviews:

http://digg.com/movies/Why_Blockbuster_STILL_Sucks_Compared_to_Netflix

plus a ton of people over there agreed with Henry.

Let’s dismiss the horrible grammar, lack of punctuation, and zero capitalization. It’s a plague that affects most of the “ist” writers when they aren’t being copy-edited. There’s something very telling in there, though. LAist doesn’t care about the content of the review being inaccurate as long as it gets them to the front page of Digg.

Hit whoring. Plain and simple.

I responded:

Sure Tony… And half the people who commented on your site think he’s a moron. But hey, it’s really all about hit-whoring, and as long as you make the front page of digg, who cares if Henry says completely inaccurate shit based on nothing (they ship from stores? Stop it dope, they do not; they ship from one of 35 distro centers around the country, none of which are stores).

Way to go making the front page, though.

I also saw a story about redesigning Myspace, so you guys are certainly in elite company.

Yep… But hey, at least they got eyeballs.

Might I suggest to the “ist” hitwhores that if they want to be respected in the world, they may want to take their content more seriously than their stats. I would hope that whoever runs “ist” would put them in their place. I can say what I want about Gothamist, but the truth of the matter is that they’re big on content, and while I may disagree with them, you won’t catch a blatant mistruth or half-assed story in there. Jake and Jen, for all the grief I may give them in their comments do a great job, and frankly the LAist folks are not up to that level (And yes, I read a bunch of the other articles before drawing that conclusion).

Oh, and just for shits and giggles I checked out the IMDB page for the movie they couldn’t find on Blockbuster, Amores Perros. Here it is.

Riveting.

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