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Infoworld's Tom Yager offers a fine example of what it's like to be a tech journalist on the receiving end of one of those dreadful, meaningless pitches from clueless PR types.
In this one, you get to role-play the part of the tech scribe. Your mission: to decipher this PR gobbledegook and come up with a suitable response (hopefully something a little more constructive than 'sod off you useless flack'). Link courtesy of Tom Murphy's PR Opinions blog
Reminds me of a similar rant from a couple of years ago by the splendid Greg Michetti in the Edmonton Sun, and Adam Cunningham's follow up, blogged here.
In this one, you get to role-play the part of the tech scribe. Your mission: to decipher this PR gobbledegook and come up with a suitable response (hopefully something a little more constructive than 'sod off you useless flack'). Link courtesy of Tom Murphy's PR Opinions blog
Reminds me of a similar rant from a couple of years ago by the splendid Greg Michetti in the Edmonton Sun, and Adam Cunningham's follow up, blogged here.
