It’s an elixir of journalism that is being used more and more to sell newspapers and newspaper ads online. The Fourth Estate’s First Amendment rights in practice guarantee that essentially anything can be said about anybody if attached to one magic word: allege. He said, she said. Truth and facts be damned. Public pissing matches [...]
June 2, 2007
This time, how embargoed press releases can have unintended consequences.
May 30, 2007
Consumerist, one of my regular reads, missed the mark today. Fortunately, most of its readers didn’t buy the line that public relations practitioners and journalists collude with one another to deceive the public with the practice of using embargoed news releases. One point that needs to be underscored is that embargoes serve a purpose for [...]
June 7, 2007