Your confidence in your own ignorance as a universal premise ("we can't know") leads to poor assumptions and a failure to appreciate other's applied knowledge (those of us who are either well acquainted with or are in actual possession of professional writing experience and/or have managed writers in creative and journalistic environments). I am confident a simple Google check will show you that J.H. is professionally employed by DDB. Feel free to call my bluff over a PM and I'll be happy to sort you out and provide you some toolkits to better argue against reality besides faulty premises bordering on a Russell's teapot stance.
No one is "ranting at you." I didn't take your remarks personally, and I was responding to the substance of the line of reasoning you presented. You injected some notion of objectivity which in truth was naivety. I was trying to enlighten you to reality vs. the ideal magical thinking you're trying to insert as reality.
Variety is wonderful, but variety is hard to manage and sustain in house at very apparent scale to anyone who has ever taken a look at DDB/Fandom from a trade journo or HR perspective, and freelancers are a whole 'nuther bag of cats. Again, while I'm not an invested reader of J.H. myself, I think his position with DDB contributes solid work to the hobby, as has his other professional work in the industry. And while you weren't part of the initial impetus, I am very uncomfortable with threads created to attack someone's livelihood, especially if the cause of that assault seems to be more a matter of taste than quality.
Your confidence in your own ignorance as a universal premise ("we can't know") leads to poor assumptions and a failure to appreciate other's applied knowledge (those of us who are either well acquainted with or are in actual possession of professional writing experience and/or have managed writers in creative and journalistic environments). I am confident a simple Google check will show you that J.H. is professionally employed by DDB. Feel free to call my bluff over a PM and I'll be happy to sort you out and provide you some toolkits to better argue against reality besides faulty premises bordering on a Russell's teapot stance.
No one is "ranting at you." I didn't take your remarks personally, and I was responding to the substance of the line of reasoning you presented. You injected some notion of objectivity which in truth was naivety. I was trying to enlighten you to reality vs. the ideal magical thinking you're trying to insert as reality.
Variety is wonderful, but variety is hard to manage and sustain in house at very apparent scale to anyone who has ever taken a look at DDB/Fandom from a trade journo or HR perspective, and freelancers are a whole 'nuther bag of cats. Again, while I'm not an invested reader of J.H. myself, I think his position with DDB contributes solid work to the hobby, as has his other professional work in the industry. And while you weren't part of the initial impetus, I am very uncomfortable with threads created to attack someone's livelihood, especially if the cause of that assault seems to be more a matter of taste than quality.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.