You’re probably right about that. Culturmap is not exactly at top-tier news agency — kind of like Examiner an Patch, but with fewer pop-up ads.
Yea, I’ve been in the marketing/advertising/pr/communications game for quite a while now. For some big players and some unusual ones as well.
Big journalism is, for the most part, an illusion. It is all just PR releases from businesses, the ethical and the unethical. Doesn’t matter.
I could go into specifics but you’d just shake your head and say “nothing is real anymore.” And you’d be right.