How can some journalists present fake articles?
I am trying to be as crude and Frank as possible with you. But please do no take this as a general statement. This is even what your question says, few journalist…fake news. Also, it's a long answer.Coming to the point. In the last five years or more journalism has changed; not just in India but globally. This is what I usually call as social media or heresay journalism. While reading this answer, pick the best business or general newspaper you have around you. Read the stories carefully. You will realise it's all based on “he said, she said” theory. That means, the journalist is washing off his hands from fact checking…and so are the editors. Earlier, the subeditors at major newspapers did two key things: fact check and sub or edit a copy. These days, even interns file stories and they are published with little fact check.Why did this happen? Clearly of two reasons: one, the pressure of breaking a news, and the pressure of not missing any news which the competition has covered. Second, the rise of managers in place of content editors.Let's take it one by one. Journalists are now pressured to submit more than three “good” stories. However, the definition of how you define good is different for different organisations. Hence, they share stories and sometimes even invest little time cross questioning facts. Seriously, only a few do. What they do check is if it's closer to truthm to explain it better, if you are sure that 123 cases of robbery are filed from your city..If you are meeting a journalist who is busy following the story, say there are around 130 or less than 130 cases. You will see it get published the other day.The rise of managers and content heads is another reason according to my view. This hold largely true in digital journalism but even in print there are several content or product managers who now have a say in what should be published.So when a journalist is under pressure to deliver news as a product and not as an information, they manipulate it. They assume that there would be no fact checkers — neither in office nor among readers. Thus they walk.scott free. And please remember, a newspaper always publishes a news in two column in bold fonts and apology in fine print. Since you don't care reading and responding, they don't care being accountable.Now to the final page or your answer, do thehave the right? Absolutely they don't but who cares?! At least we all don't otherwise, this would have ceased long back.
When someone says “I will let you know”, what does it mean?
Usually it means they are ignoring or dismissing the issue entirely or don't want to deal with it, and saying “I will let you know” is just a kind way of getting you to go away thinking that your concern will be addressed at some time.Usually the person does not go out of their way to proactively “let you know” once they find out what you want to know --they instead just wait for you to return or contact them again to follow up and inquire of the information, so the statement is misleading.They aren't going to actually contact you when they get the information in quite as active of a manner as “I will let you know” implies. More likely, they will let you know, passively, once you contact them again on your own to inquire at a later date, at which point they “let you know,” but certainly haven't gone out of their way to inform you.Sometimes people are genuine in their commitment to let you know of something when they say they will, but mostly it is a nice way to say, “Get out of my hair right now, I don't know the information, and contact me sometime later and if I have the information, I will give it to you then, but in the meantime, please move on.”
Where do I start promoting my IndieGoGo campaign?
I raised $600,000 in my crowdfunding campaign. My company has become one of the biggest success stories in crowdfunding history. I also write articles about crowdfunding that have been published by Forbes, Inc Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine.The biggest source of our success was from the press covering our campaign. It was amazing that in the first couple of days we were covered by Engadget, TechCrunch and Fast Company.Here’s a list of things we did, or things that you can do now that I wish I had done during our campaign.How to promote your crowdfunding campaign and raise more money!Get some PR Help. hire a PR firm that specializes in PR for pre-seed tech companies. A great company is TalkTechCOMM in Los Angeles.Social Advertising. Create an advertising campaign on Facebook. This is the best way to go about advertising since you can be very specific in who you target. Use images and videos in your ads.Find Influencers. Use Buzzsumo to find social influencers in your niche. Engage them and see if they’re open to posting about your campaign.Use social media tools. Use free tools like Tweetbuzz to manage your accounts and respond to mentions and comments.Get Referrals. You can use Indiegogo’s built in referral engine or submit your link to other affiliate websites.Advertise on websites. Find websites that have the audience you want and advertise on their site.These are things you should NOT DO.Buy traffic. Indiegogo and Kickstart use fraud detection to catch campaigns that use illegal and unethical means to drive traffic. This includes buying traffic from Fiverr.Wait too long. You want to make a big push when you first launch your campaign. You want to get funds asap.Spam other people. Don’t overload your social channels with too many posts. And don’t spam journalists and influencers. Be polite.You need to do your part too. You need to actively promote the project on your social media, and engage with other people on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Let me know if you have any questions.