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Twittering Journalist Offers Wisdom To Advertising Flacks

Started by maxkalehoff · 1 year ago

Following is also my latest MediaPost Spin column. 

Twittering Journalist Offers Wisdom To Advertising Flacks

March 7th, 2008 by Max Kalehoff

If you work in the online advertising industry, you’ve probably heard of veteran journalist Brian Morrissey. He may be coveted for his role as Adweek’s Digital Editor, but he’s ... Continue reading »

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  • brian morrissey is a bitter, 35-year old trade journalist who hasn't yet realized that annoying pr people are part and parcel of the media business. im sure he has a google alert on his name that will alert him to this cheap, unverified comment.

    instead of bitching about it incessantly, perhaps he could use all of these public vanity platforms to tell people how to best engage him. ie: don't leave voicemails to follow-up. ever. specific criteria for unsolicited pitches (with the rest ignored). you get the idea.

    also, anyone who gets unsolicited email has figured out how to apply rules and use filters to cut out the nonsense. he should try it.

    morrissey is obviously trying to be a george parker-like curmudgeon (sans the biting humor and intelligence), and is burning bridges in the process. the irony of it all is one day his job will be cut and he'll find himself knocked off the high horse and into the muddy trenches of marketing and advertising.

    oh, and hopefully this archives well in google-- the irony!

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