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Re: Thursday, January 20, 2005
Its tedious listening to the relentless self-congratulatory tone of journalists. For sure. I'm amazed at Rebecca Blood's comment. She says she has never read any of the weblogs mentioned in Rosen's sloppy reporting yet she goes onto make a sweeping generalisation about what they cover and write about etc and their purpose. Here's what Rebecca said... hmmm. it seems to me that you're assuming that all of these PR bloggers want to be PR *journalists*, and that may not be the case. I haven't read any of the weblogs you mention, but it seems entirely plausible to me that their interest--and the purpose of their weblogs--is to promote their firms or to talk about effective PR strategies, not to "cover" the PR beat.Looking at that again, I'll say you're right that she failed to PR bloggers credit whre due. I should have noticed that, but didn't. Mea culpa. Her final point, however — not every blogger wants to be a citizen journalist — is a good one, and that's one point I tried to enlarge in my post. This is a new height scaled in the arrogant disregard for accuracy that is endemic in many blogs. Okay, prove the accuracy in this remark, then: Journalists criticise media more often than not because they are ashamed of just how much they rely on PR for information and research and story ideas. I think you mean "criticize PR." Even with that change, the statement rings false to me. But hey, I'm glad to be wrong. Happens a lot. Fortunately, as Jay posted 1.5 years ago, Blogging is about making and changing minds. I'd be very surprised if lots of minds aren't being changed by the Armstrong Williams fiasco. There are responses to this message:
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