[Note: This was written as a submission for another blog.] My list of pet peeves about journalists: Lack of homework, or any attempt at doing homework, about the topic at hand. This is more true for television journalists. I quite often take calls at the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources where questions asked [...]
September 17, 2008
Lest we forget, the ‘public’ in public relations refers to the constituents to which we are accountable. So it irks me to hear about my colleagues who use their public relations positions to attempt to mold and control news stories to bizarre degrees. (When I was in a past position being encouraged to do [...]
September 15, 2008
I’ll be tweeting live tomorrow from the Tahoe backcountry on a media relations excursion (cell phone coverage depending, of course). A local TV news crew is doing a Lake Tahoe backcountry feature on horseback. I’ll be tagging along and documenting it as we head from Spooner Lake to the grand vistas of the Sierras, which [...]
July 30, 2008
If the average person knew how much of what they consume of daily news originates from or is influenced in some way by a public relations effort, it would likely blow minds. But such is the nature of the news (and PR) business. There’s an uncomfortable symbiosis between reporters and PR people that is both [...]
May 11, 2008
In case the point has not been drilled home enough, those on the receiving end of public relations ineptitude are fed up. It started last fall when an editor for Wired publicly posted PR people’s email address–those he deemed guilty of overly annoying PR spam. My favorite comment to this post: “As a VP in [...]
September 26, 2008