Guitar News Daily decide not to publish Gibson story
You may well have seen the reports about the recent raids on Gibson’s Nashville and Memphis sites by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Perhaps you’ve even read or listened to Henry Juszkiewicz’s carefully crafted statement. Published and verified facts are somewhat thin on the ground and so the Guitar News Daily editorial team have taken the decision not to publish a story on the matter and to wait until there is something informative to report.
Should you be in need of a dose of wild speculation on the matter, you should be able to find it on almost every other guitar related site or forum.
So are you saying that the media shouldn’t publish an article about something until all the facts on the matter are proven to be known? Surely there would be no media, and evolving stories such as the hacking scandal would never be unearthed?
This is a ridiculously smug ego massage, and by acknowledging the gibson story, and writing a story about how you aren’t writing about it, you are actually contradicting your own point.
Shame on you.
Quite the contrary and the hacking story is a great example. The journalists actually uncovered the facts before reporting them rather than, as is the case with the Gibson story, speculating about what the facts might be.
And the paradox of writing about not writing about the story was the whole point and was intended to be a tongue in cheek dig at all the other sources who are either reporting PR statements verbatim or just making stuff up.
If anyone is interested, the first proper journalism (you know, with investigation) about this story has appeared in today’s WSJ. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903895904576542942027859286.html
What’s going on with this story now? I’ve noticed Gibson experimenting with different fretboard woods, and was recently shown a Les Paul with a “Burnt Maple” fretboard by the salesman at my local Guitar Center. He said Gibson was using it to try and replicate the sound of Ebony (it looked like Rosewood with maybe some kind of a finish on it to me. I declined a test drive). Is Gibson ever gonna use Ebony again, or am I stuck buying used guitars from now on?
(I admit, I haven’t been fallowing this in the news. The WSJ article you linked is all I know.