GoTriCities.com The Buzz censors the detour

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On Wednesday, I submitted a post to GoTriCities.com Buzz forum (http://www.gotricities.com/thebuzz) instructing bands on how they could submit music to the detour. A few hours later when I tried to log back in, my account had been deleted.

Why would GoTriCities.com not want local artists and bands to be able to submit music to the detour?

Hello Aaron,

Sorry about that.

We don't promote competitive media sources on our forum.

Our company has its own business model that includes the promotion of local music and also includes a future Internet radio strategy.

We made a decision a long time ago to publish comments from local bands, musicians and venues that support them. We state that in our terms of conditions.

We would be available to discuss joint promotions as shared ventures, but we simply have a company policy about promoting competitive media who seek to build audience, advertisers or content using our forums.

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David Cate
New Media Director
The GoTriCities Network
Kingsport Publishing Corporation
http://www.timesnews.net
http://www.gotricities.net
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So GoTriCities.com is trying to make themselves the monopoly when it comes to the local music scene? I think that by refusing to allow this kind of information up, they are depriving bands/artists the opportunity to get their music out to more people.

What's also funny is that the detour has already been advertised all over GoTriCities.com...so they have been in violation of their own TOS for months now. At the bottom of every column written by Jim McGennis (host of Family Entertainment here on the detour), there is a note that reads...

Jim McGuinness hosts the “Family Entertainment” radio show, which can be heard from 8 to 11 p.m., Sundays on Internet station The Detour (www.thedetour.us)

So this really doesn't make any sense to me. I am not allowed to give instructions to bands/artists on how to submit music to the detour, but are allowed to advertise the web site to the station on several other pages around the site? Weird..

Isn't it lovely to see the censorship alive and well in the Tri-Cities media. I thought that the Buzz was created to help bands/artists promote their music & events to the world...no matter what means, but instead it appears they are just trying to build a profitable monopoly around the local music market.