Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets to Be Journalism?

Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by jasonshen on Saturday July 02, 2016 @02:43PM (#12023425)

Imagine spending 10 years working on a product and then being told at the last minute that it was going to be marketed in a completely different way than you expected. Like you think you're making an intelligent puzzler for adult gamers, and then they wrap it in a cartoonish package and call it "Wally's Wicked World of Puzzles!"

I'm glad she's decided to speak up about this issue and I absolutely agree that the chances a white man would get similar treatment is close to nill.

And for those who think these kinds of racial thought experiments don't hold water, they can and do. Consider the fact that Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker was once patted down in the middle of an upscale deli because an employee thought he might be shoplifting. Now consider whether that would ever happen to a white actor of a similar pedigree and try to argue that racism was not at work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/forest-whitaker-fal...

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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by hammock on Saturday July 02, 2016 @03:24PM (#12023529)

Happens all the time to game makers, screenplay writers, songwriters, pretty much any type of auteur or IP creator. Retaining full creative control over the product is very rare and requires control of production and distribution.

This control varies by the medium. A painter can do it easily (sometimes), many other artists cannot.

Moreover, "marketing" can never be controlled. A critic with a platform can say whatever she wants about your work and you can't stop her.

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