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The Blogosphere Doesn’t Need Pitchfork’s Altered Zones

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Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010
by PopMatters Staff
by Leor Galil
True/Slant (30 June 2010)

“It’s with Altered Zones that Pitchfork appears to be hijacking the conversation occurring on the music blogosphere. Pitchfork’s attitude of absolute authority in deeming certain sounds as credible has been extended to the still-unwieldy world of the blogs, and somehow the folks at Pitchfork believe they can trade some popular web space for a real, authentic blog voice with 15 popular blogging sites.


Thank goodness, the benevolent Pitchfork has arrived to pull some of our blogging brethren from the depths of this cruel CSS-fueled community! Right?


Wrong. Though I don’t doubt Pitchfork’s attempts to get the best coverage of the ever-growing music world, their ideal to provide a closed forum with their 15 favorite blogs on tap is hardly any improvement over what they are currently engaged in.”


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