A Word From The Editor
BY DC CUEVA
BY DC CUEVA
Putting together every post that DCBLOG offers in covering MTV Reality and everything else of interest is an extraneous and time-consuming process. Like any good journalist -- those who work in newsrooms spanning print, broadcast and online every day, as well as freelancers and those who do this as a hobby on the side like I do, there are many hours spent every day to put together content that takes anywhere from a few minutes for short stories posts on this site to an hour for a documentary program such as PBS' Frontline or an ESPN 30 for 30. Plus, for someone who treats this as important as anything I have every day, there's also time for everything else, such as a second job that goes concurrent with what I have outside this world, family and other matters... trying to balance these things is a tedious process.
It's with this in mind that, for the past few weeks, our DCBLOG schedule has not been running in sync with the MTV schedule, as we usually do around here. Those of you who have been anticipating all the upcoming 'Pulse posts for what is now last week's packed week of episodes in the MTV world have not been posted as of yet. There, last week saw Kailah come to Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, Angela's return to Ex On The Beach, the season 2 finale of Floribama Shore and the premiere of The Challenge: War of the Worlds. We sincerely apologize to all of you for having to keep you hanging for most of the last month, but before you go off on us... there are a few factors relating to this.
In the two to three weeks proceeding The Challenge 33 premiere, I devoted much of my blogging time to my preview post on War of the Worlds, as well as researching on sixteen newcomers to the new season (sans Chase and Morgan), which contributed to two extended "Who Are These Newbies" posts. Plus, there was me traveling to my relatives' house for a night which set back my schedule by a day, but it feels almost like an eternity because things which have been scheduled to be posted may not get posted in time, or sometimes being put on the backburner.
Second, there's the time factor: because I now have more time to my actual work in working three days instead of two, I don't have as much max time as I have to try and get everything all up in a speedy manner than it was to begin with. Plus, there's covering four shows in this coming week's blog wave, which has slowed down the process of getting things up as soon as possible, especially when it comes to compiling the Pulse diaries, which takes hours for it to be put together in chronological form as it happened on Twitter. Sometimes, the ExtraTime stories take days to put together, too.
And to add on to this, my desktop computer crashed not once, but twice this past month... but luckily, everything that I download and those files that contain the precious data for these posts are always stored on one of a many flash drives & portable drives as a precaution. Ask our friends at Relevant.TV what this has been like of having to endure this process the past month with their portable hard drive and footage of their New Year's Eve soiree crashing and it being saved by technicians for episodes to finally be posted this week.
So, those are the reasons why things have not been in sync in the course of the two to three weeks on this site. But luckily, I have been taking advantage of any spare time I have to work on this site, and doing whatever I can to get everything up for all of you up on here. So, here's what's to come...
With some exceptions, all of DCBLOG's episode Pulse posts are posted chronologically in order as they aired on TV... and are posted at least 2 to 3 days after they are air with respect to the streaming and catch-up audiences. Though we would be able to do stand-alone recaps and power rankings like every other site does, this site tends to be a supplement: one that offers complementary content to what you get from your favorite website or podcast with social media buzz, storytelling and more. Us being able to have as much time as possible to compile, research and compose the high level content we offer is partially the reason for our high standing in this business in covering these shows.
With that in mind, we plan to begin this week's Pulse posts with a series of four backtracked posts, first covering Kailah's arrival to the Beach Club as part of a Pulse Extra at the earliest tomorrow night after this week's Challenge episode airs out west. We'll then cover the season premiere of Challenge 33 from last week, Angela's return to Ex On The Beach and the Floribama finale... and we'll then shift to covering this week's episodes as usual with Pulse posts for the three remaining shows to come after. And although it is not a guarantee, should things go on schedule it is our hope that by the end of this coming extended holiday weekend - or before next week's Challenge episode airs, we will finally be up to date on the Pulse of all the episodes. But as always, things may change a bit with the ever-evolving news cycle and anything that might come up out of nowhere.
So to all of you, thank you for staying patient & your continued loyalty. And we'll see you here then... and enjoy this week's episodes.
- I AM DC
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