http://attentionmax.disqus.com/Max Kalehoff On Marketing, Media & The Edge…Plus Bonus Insights On Start-Up Culture & Raising Kids. enWed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:55 -0000http://www.attentionmax.com/blog/2008/03/twittering_journalist_offers_wisdom_to_advertising_flacks.php#comment-747529brian 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>oh, and hopefully this archives well in google-- the irony!tedWed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:55 -0000