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Here's your chance to blog a hunchback
By adamg on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 3:01pm
Bloggers who agree to write about Vox Lumiere's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" at the Cutler Majestic Theatre (good, bad or indifferent) get a free ticket to the 7:30 p.m. performance on March 25, by sending a note to [email protected] (include your blog URL). Read more about the play here.
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How does this work with bloggers?
A newspaper might get free tickets to every show, regardless of whether they've given lots of negative reviews in the past.
Is the same true for individual bloggers, or is there a potential conflict?
Only because
They only gave free tickets to every show to the newspaper because it was the only game in town for reviews. This isn't the government. If the show doesn't want to invite someone because they crapped all over the last review, they don't have to.
Exactly. So, sounds like a
Exactly. So, sounds like a conflict of interest. (I don't mean to imply anything about the intentions of anyone involved, but for this model to work long-term and on a large scale, the conflicts need to be identified and managed early on.)
This is the second time I've done this with these folks
Last year (I think, time flies when you're having fun), we did something similar with another production (Ennio, who I think was a comedian): They didn't care what you wrote, as long as you did. I haven't heard from anybody this time around being denied tickets because of what they wrote last time.
I don't doubt that it works
I don't doubt that it works in this case.
I'm just looking for conventions that would work everywhere. I think that obvious potential conflict of interest like this is a problem best addressed earlier rather than after bad practice becomes institutionalized.
thanks...
...maybe i'll ask him if he can delete that awful ad that keeps popping up in the sidebar. is that hunchback eating the little guy in it?