What if the world ends on July 13?
I just submitted a story about the third season of a series on Cinemax. After a teleconference, the PR called to ask if we could embargo the story until July. Hello? Have you checked the calendar? It’s just May. By July, I’d have forgotten about everything already.
Call it an issue of timeliness. Fine. But coming out with the story tomorrow or on Tuesday is just as significant because the cast will start working on Season 4 on Monday. A Season 3 story is just too old already because it’s been shown everywhere else except in Asia (okay, maybe I’m exaggerating here.. like, what about Timbuktu?)
Besides, what if the world ends on July 13? (Not that it’s Friday the 13th or anything.. It’s just that our entertainment page comes out Tuesdays and Fridays.) The interview would have been a total waste!
I know it’s not some market-moving, earth-shaking news but it just pisses me off to get this embargo order from someone who says that my paper "is not really a priority because of its low circulation" compared to the Big 3. Am I just being too sensitive? I mean, if it’s so low, why would you worry if we come out with the story early?
Oh well, maybe I’m just pissed cz I had some sort of a nightmare connected to it.
I should chill. I wouldn’t exactly know until much much later if my story will come out or not. And it won’t, shouldn’t, better not kill me.
