Thursday, June 4, 2009

Wanna be a journo? Got lazy english? Get a job on a rap website


Earlier today a much more popular blogger than me Bucky Turco, posted about the major embarrassment of Hip Hop website RapRadar.com accidentally posting rap supremo Paul Rosenberg's email address. Rosenberg manages the biggest rapper on the planet, Eminem, you may have heard of him.

He also runs owns RapRadar.com which brings me to my point which Turco seems to have missed. If you are a journalist emailing the guy that is effectively your boss would you use u for you and 2 for to? It makes failing to capitalise Jay's last name look like a pretty minor error. Maybe he's just too busy for those five extra key strokes.

Now far be it for me to moan about subbing, as anyone who has perused my blog will know, I make my fair share of grammatical and spelling errors but this is ridiculous. I'm booking a ticket on the next plane to NY to get in the mix with these guys.

Image courtesy of Kyota