I was listening to the 127th podcast episode of the Harry Potter podcast Mugglecast tonight. The hosts of the show were mentioning that their site, Mugglenet, had been hacked the week before. They made a remark about poor journalism in that no other podcast or Harry Potter site had reported on the hacking of the site, which is easily one of the top 2 fan sites out there. I flashed back instantly to when, over the holidays, the podcast from the other leading site, The Leaky Cauldron, had 2 parts of an interview with the famous author of the books, Jo Rowling, and Mugglecast made not a single mention of it.
Is this common in podcast genres which are so competitive? Is it possible that the fact that Pottercast, the podcast from Leaky, got this huge interview instead of the Mugglecasters, could this be the reason that shortly thereafter Mugglecast announced they would be stopping regular production in the spring? I know that the two podcasts have always been at odds with one another, competition so to speak, but to not even both to congratulate them for their interview? That's just downright spiteful. To then complain about them not covering something that happened on your site? Entirely too hypocritical for my tastes.
I don't listen to either of those podcasts. But, I can't say I'm surprised. Podcasters tend to be very competitive, and nobody really cares about "community" anymore.