I consider it more of a service to altnation than to columbia pictures or any PR types, hence why I post them very intermittently at times and only things that I think may be of interest (I believe there's a big thread on Spiderman 3 movie), relevance or at least stimulate a backlash discussion here. Also hence the pile of emails from PR company's asking if things might make the site while I post rubbish celeb gossip from Gigwise... Although I don't actually receive more than a couple news emails per month from PR types for altnation.
I probably post worse about things I have no interest in and am only thinking of other AN folks for, kinda natural but the overlap of my personal interests and altnation forumers at large seems sparse at times. I'm pretty certain that the Admin & Editors are always welcome for new volunteers to post original news content they can source themselves.
For example, Largest of Als is good at movie news but his formatting and style don't meet the current guidelines on what is useable as frontpage tagged news unfortunately.
In fact I might suggest a How To Post AN News guide or "we want news posters" thread to those at the top of the AN pile. Expect something to come of it around christmas maybe...
