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+ | /* ====== How Credible is Wishful Thinking? ====== | ||
+ | **DESPITE DENYING** //his role as an Axanar surrogate, one blogger has continued to promote the beleaguered production' | ||
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+ | //**__Part 1: The Fan Film Focus Group Report__**// | ||
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+ | **AxaMonitor** editor \\ | ||
+ | September 7, 2016</ | ||
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+ | /* **AxaMonitor** published an article on August 26, " | ||
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+ | An email we received via our [[feedback|Feedback form]] summed up the comments: | ||
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+ | <wrap lo>The Small Access Group is NOT a group of AXANAR supporters. It's a group of people concerned about how [Star Trek] is being marketed and how fans' productions are being reduced or made " | ||
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+ | ===== Reader Complaints ===== | ||
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+ | The report' | ||
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+ | Fair enough. | ||
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+ | ==== Factual ==== | ||
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+ | Except that's not what the **AxaMonitor** article states. Instead it describes the Small Access group like this: | ||
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+ | > Project Small Access is a group organized by leading Axanar supporters to protest CBS’ fan films guidelines by calling for a partial boycott of its new television series, //Star Trek: Discovery//, | ||
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+ | Everything in that description is factual. In fact, the article devotes an entire section, " | ||
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+ | === Problem with the Headline === | ||
+ | Wayward apostrophe | ||
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+ | ==== Connection to Axanar ==== | ||
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+ | A sidebar to the article, " | ||
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+ | * Mike Bawden, one of Small Access' | ||
+ | * Lane, who established the group along with Bawden, regularly writes columns on the Axanar website. | ||
+ | * Dave Heagney Jr., whose blog, like Lane' | ||
+ | * And where is the downloadable PDF of the fan film report hosted? On Axanar' | ||
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+ | === Fan Film Factor Blog === | ||
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+ | Lane's own blog, [[http:// | ||
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+ | But what difference does all this make with respect to the fan film report Lane authored? | ||
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+ | ===== The Credibility Factor ===== | ||
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+ | Irrespective of whether there actually is an Axanar agenda behind the fan film report, such documented close connections cannot help but undermine the credibility of the report' | ||
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+ | ==== Guideline Changes Benefiting Axanar ==== | ||
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+ | ==== Methodology Problems ==== | ||
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+ | === Sample Size === | ||
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+ | === Self-Selected === | ||
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+ | === Not Really a Focus Group === | ||
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+ | === Undermining Appeal to Studios === | ||
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+ | with whom Axanar has an adversarial relationship, | ||
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