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Well Joel, this is quite a statement here, and the Wonders staff surely feels your dismay with the manner in which events have played out at your erstwhile home. Your departure from the Examiner is a major loss for that hub, though I won’t say much more on that. Needless to say, it’s their loss, as you have proven over the past two years, that you are one of the net’s finest writers. At 28 years old, a bright writing career lies ahead, and I have no doubt you will soon be penning your exquisite essays again. I must say I completely agree with your disdain with the ‘inde’ moniker, as it compromised your particular specialty in classic cinema. I agree that you need to have a connection to the past and present, and your tentaive plans to cross post at Wonders in a boon to the site, and an additional forum for hoped for discussion. We are appreciated your involvement here exceedingly, and what with your continued activity at THE SUN’S NOT YELLOW and THE DANCING IMAGE, you will have a pluralistic platform to advance to another on-line home.
As you know, we are thrilled to have your earlier posts here, and look forward to your new material.
I wish you the best Mr. Bocko, in your future endeavors. But it’s great that you are still onboard here at Wonder sin the Dark, where I have seen some of the best reviews ever posted at the site. It seems to me that these people wanted something for nothing. There are far more lucrative ways to maximize what you offer.
I’m surprised you stuck it out as long as you did under the circumstances. Give them time. They’ll eventually realize the follies of their ways. But I agree that it’s time to walk down a different path.
Good for you, Joel. Let me encourage you to continue to pursue some of the perks you had with the Examiner. Press passes, screeners, invitations to film festivals can all be gotten with a blog. It just takes a bit more hard work, selling yourself and your abilities, and displaying stability and consistency in your posting. I have had no problem developing my own contacts, but it is an ongoing process to which I devote at least 1/3 of my blogging time.
Good luck, and keep in touch.
Well, this will have to be a dreaded hit and run, but I’m glad to see the trial and error of your web publishing career continuing. You’ve always been a great match for Wonders and I look forward to seeing your stuff here. Best of luck to ya, Joel.
A note to both you and the rest of the Wonders staff…getting into press screenings can be a little tough, but have you ever considered wrangling some DVD screeners to review? A lot of publicists will send out promos to any slack jawed yokel with a decent readership (you’re lookin’ at one): Wonders definitely fits that bill and then some.
Hi! Joel,
I’am so sorry to read about your experience with The Examiner, but here’s wishing you the best with your future endeavors too.
Take care!
DeeDee š
Thanks for sharing your experience, Joel – it was interesting to see how things progressed and I think it’s a great lesson for any of us writing about film online, whether for fun or the occasional $91.17.
Best of luck and I look forward to your work here and at your two home blogs.
Sure it’s sad in one sense. But it seems to me based on what you say that you were never really comfortable working for them. You constantly had to play by rules you never supported from the beginning. With three blogs, I’d say it’s only a matter of time before you are back in the saddle somewhere. I’ve always been greatly impressed with your writing at this site and have logged in a number of comments.
Thanks, everyone.
I should note that perhaps this came off as a little more bitter than I intended; for the most part, I don’t have an axe to grind. Though some of the context they placed me in, and the policies I didn’t like, irked me I was pretty much left on my own, which was nice – an initial administrator held off posting my first piece until I removed the first-person, but she was gone within a week and no one ever bothered me about my content again.
Indeed, I’m more irritated by what’s happened after I left the site, than anything that happened before – and even that may be worked out, though I have my doubts at this stage in the game. At any rate, my tenure there served its purpose, and most of the above pieces – some of which I’m quite proud of – probably never would have been written under different auspices.
I hear you, Tony, but frankly am not sure I can afford a 1/3 of my blogging/movie time for those purposes, as I’m already having trouble producing on the schedule I’m on (plus I may be losing internet soon, and forced to resort to library access, but that’s another happy story…!). I do plan on following some of the advice you offered in your previous e-mail to me though, hopefully sooner rather than later, as well as exploring the options Jon mentions. We’ll see where it goes from here…
Great to have your stuff here Joel, as I’m sure you’ll end up getting a much better discussion going in these comment threads than on the Examiner. If I had known you were getting paid per webpage hit, I’d have come up with a script to pound the website and try to get you a few more bucks š
I’d be too cheap to think about going to even a movie a week in theaters without a press pass at today’s prices (I swear that Sam must have a second mortgage to afford 4 movies per week for him and multiple family members). Of course, the nice thing about posting here is that there is as much discourse on older films as there is on current ones, so I say save some dollars and write away about the classics…
Joel, fantastic news on the move to WitD. Where ever you write, my eyes and brain will follow. Love your point of view, keep up the good work!
Hey Jamie! I trust all is well. In behalf of Joel, thanks.
Too bad about that! Having worked at the SF papers (not a writer) for 18 yrs, I saw before I left certain writers being told to write about “things” they were not qualified to write about, and they hated it, so moved on, which in the end, the company obviously wanted.
Regardless, working for any news outlet isn’t like it used to be, and never will again.
I look forward to reading your past reviews as time allows, and Good Luck out there!
As always Michael, your support and encouragement is deeply appreciated on these pages!
Just wanted to express a clarification, as some have privately expressed concern that I was perhaps being too harsh in my departure: for the most part, the experience with the Examiner was good. I mentioned the policy of not taking down writer’s work in way of a warning, lest anyone else write for the site without knowing this, but otherwise the anecdotes (discomfort with “indie”, difficulties “trapping” an audience) were just meant to add color to the piece. Even with the difficulties leaving, I’m glad I wrote for the site for the reasons mentioned above and I hope the above explanation reflected that.
Thanks again for everyone’s enthusiasm. The new 21st-century series on this site should begin within a couple weeks – meanwhile I’ll be keeping up activity on The Sun’s Not Yellow, probably putting up an extensive but lighthearted in the extreme post on Dancing Image, and hopefully developing in a few new directions too.
You’re family here Joel. Thanks for staying with us. You’re writing and opinions have always lesarnt to learning and great debate. I speak, I’m sure, for everyone when I say we’re glad you’re here… Your Pal, Dennis
That’s OK, MovieMan. I guarantee you my readership wherever and whatever you write. All the best for your future ventures…