New Policies Damage a Once Great Website:

I know I am going to piss someone off with this but they are pissing me off, big time! Last Sunday while waiting for a video of the Winsor McCay Award acceptance speeches to upload for my site I wandered over to Animated News to check out their Annie Awards coverage. In past years it has been first rate.

In the past Animated News was one of my favorite sites. I would click by 2 or 3 times a day. They always had original reporting and interviews with animation heavy weights. Not anymore, the by lines of the reporters that use to do all that cool stuff are few and far between.

Their full reportage on the Annie Awards this year was a link to a Variety story, and a link to the Annie Award list of winners at the ASIFA Annie Award site. Nothing about who was there, what they thought or said, or how they felt, or what new project they are working on. Just Cut and Paste Reporting.

I don`t know who the new bean-counter-in-charge is at this once great site but I do not appreciate their policy of web site regurgitation with no real reporting. Warm it over, pass it off as a report. That is not reporting. There are far too many sites doing this already. If they hadn`t once been great I wouldn`t bitch or even view.

It is like all the middle management types that got the boot at Disney have taken over Animated News and are using all their favorite voodoo middle management techniques to run the site into the ground. Sadly I only click by Animated News about once every other week now and I am always disappointed.

I know how to get to all the sites they lift their stories (sic) from so I don`t really need them anymore. But gods, I do miss them.