I don't understand the question.... or at least I'm having problems with understanding why anyone would want to tell someone where to go who is interested in writing an article about a genre. Surely the best reply would be one that is well thought out and one that can't be mis-interepted.

If a magazine or music paper wishes to express an interest in promoting a scene of music what advantage would a bad attitude take of tell them to f-off achieve? It seems very rude and arrogant. As if to say "sorry, you would just mess things up and give the music a bad image if we let you write about it" ?????? Please someone explain this topic a bit better to me! - I really am not understanding what this is about.

Perhaps I'm completely missing the point, but I think press are better off receiving accurate information rather than being told where to go. I just can't understand that attitude.

People seem to feel commercialism as a some sort death penalty to a genre. It isn't. It's just a term used for when a genre becomes more about being made for profit than for the entertainment. I do not believe commercialism is possible to individual tracks, but possibly to be mis-represented in commercial purposes (i.e tv advertising the best of a CD of a genre).

Just that if I was a journalist and asked a host of music lovers about there genre for a magazine to review and was told to f-off as some of you had put it, I would assume you were a arrogant and selfish bunch. But as I know better, I can only pressume you have some sort of reason for reacting that way, can any of you please explain to me why you would take that attitude when asked for info about the genre you like?????

Sorry, just shocked at some of the negative attitudes here, theres nothing wrong with that just I thought we were a bit more helpful and respectful to the media than that. I admit publicity can go very wrong, but it hardly changes anything to the people involved in the scene, just the people who aren't.

The moment you try to hide something in music and turn it in to a secret the more I think you've missed the point about music.

Please people respond, help me understand your views.