Just two months ago, Airlock Alpha — then known as SyFy Portal — ended its spoiler news coverage after more than a decade of finding success with that model. Spoilers have always been controversial, both with the fans and with the people who make the great television shows sites like Airlock Alpha covers, but has always been a necessary way for some sites to stand above others in a very crowded science-fiction news world. Michael Hinman, the founder of Airlock Alpha, recently dished on some of the secrets of good spoiler coverage, leaving the industry with a 92 percent spoiler accuracy rate over a 10-year period, to give readers at CliqueClack a bit of insight into how spoilers are done. “With competition like TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly making more money on a bad day than I would …
Posted Sunday, March 29th, 2009 at 4:53 am