By: PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks

PR, blogs, media, and doing right by folks — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:13:25 +0000

[...] My b5 colleague Colleen Coplick, who writes BuzzNetworker and comes to us from the PR world, had a good perspective on the recent dust up: I think PR people who pitch blindly, throwing a bunch of shit at the wall to see what will stick, and in turn are pitching the Editor in Chief are lazy. Chris is right. I think that media people who aren’t clear on how they want to receive information, and then get bitchy when they are contacted, or break PR’s trust – breaking embargos, threatening exclusives and when not granted them, refuse to write about the company, or just act as though the person on the other end of the phone is obviously a complete idiot because they dared to say the words “Hi, My name is Colleen, and I’m from Type A Public Relations. Do you have a minute?”. I should have named my PR company something other than “Public Relations”, obviously.–Drama, Drama, Drama [...]

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A Time of Advocacy | Off Hours — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:35:39 +0000

[...] I think about the drama that ensued in the blogosphere compliments of the latest PR people suck meme started by Trapani. [...]

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