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.
Look what happened early this year with the Hardstyle article in Mixmag, Mark eg decided to give them a chance and gave them an acurate description of what Hardstyle is an where it came from, what its influences are etc
What happened? they completely distorted and changed his words to fit a pretty picture that suited them. They didnt give a shit if it was the truth or not.
Surely you havent forgotten that already mate.

(this isnt directed at anyone in particular)
All Ive heard lately on this board is that music is not ours to say who can listen to it an all that crap. So why on earth should it be anyone elses to package & sell off as theirs an make thousands of pounds off.
The way I see it is that we have a right to defend the music we love and work so hard to discover an keep moving. The fact we give up the chance to make loads of money playing the flavour of the month style and instead choose to work 9-5 jobs to get money to pay for records, afford music equipment and put on events for the sound.
Then we see these big international brands come along, sweep it up & sell it as their own. If their success actually helped the people who are involved in scene theyve robbed it would be Ok but it doesnt.

Which in conclusion is effectivly why I dont see any reason to tell the media anything, it doesnt and wouldnt help the true hardtrance scene in anyway whatsoever. It would just help fuel the superclubs and organisations' poor commercial equivilents even more.