Comments on: An Inconvenient PR Truth http://www.wavespr.com/2010/01/an-inconvenient-pr-truth/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.wavespr.com/2010/01/an-inconvenient-pr-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-971 admin Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:34 +0000 http://www.wavespr.com/?p=2413#comment-971 Hi Sean Thanks for taking time out to respond. I'll access my media databases over the weekend and get you you details of where you're listed. We can see if we can help control it for you that way. Claire Hi Sean
Thanks for taking time out to respond.

I’ll access my media databases over the weekend and get you you details of where you’re listed. We can see if we can help control it for you that way.

Claire

]]> By: Sean Hargrave http://www.wavespr.com/2010/01/an-inconvenient-pr-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-970 Sean Hargrave Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:28:06 +0000 http://www.wavespr.com/?p=2413#comment-970 there has never been a time when press releases weren't mostly pointless, the problem is the occasional one might just catch the eye and so journalists have put up with them. i find them useful for reminding me of who looks after a particular company, so i can contact them, normally about something else. The really big problem at the moment is that journalists cannot control what they get as so much comes through massive intermediaries of email lists that are increasingly being used by one man bands who'll spray their releases everywhere and anywhere. ultimately the issue is that they've also been taken over by crazy clients who have no idea what a story is and spend the first four paras listing stock tickers, cities and acronmys in some odd way of telling a journalist what the comapny does and doesn't do, rather than convincing them to read on as there's an interesting story. there has never been a time when press releases weren’t mostly pointless, the problem is the occasional one might just catch the eye and so journalists have put up with them.
i find them useful for reminding me of who looks after a particular company, so i can contact them, normally about something else.
The really big problem at the moment is that journalists cannot control what they get as so much comes through massive intermediaries of email lists that are increasingly being used by one man bands who’ll spray their releases everywhere and anywhere.
ultimately the issue is that they’ve also been taken over by crazy clients who have no idea what a story is and spend the first four paras listing stock tickers, cities and acronmys in some odd way of telling a journalist what the comapny does and doesn’t do, rather than convincing them to read on as there’s an interesting story.

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