Comments on: I Have Met the Enemy. And He is Us. http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/ CEO. Angel Investor. Entrepreneur. Adventurist. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Why Reporters Hate PR Professionals http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-23791 Why Reporters Hate PR Professionals Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:54:05 +0000 http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-23791 [...] Shankman recently told the story of how lazy/dumb/thoughtless PR types can be when he forwards a journalist request and gets mostly lame and irrelevant replies. His [...] [...] Shankman recently told the story of how lazy/dumb/thoughtless PR types can be when he forwards a journalist request and gets mostly lame and irrelevant replies. His [...]

]]> By: dan tynan http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1691 dan tynan Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:56:15 +0000 http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-1691 and re: DK's statement. all I can say is guilty, guilty, guilty. if not to you, then to dozens if not hundreds of pr folk out there. sometimes I get 100 responses to a query, especially on profnet. there is not time enough in the day to get back to everyone. so please let me apologize for my journalism brethren and sisterns as well. dt and re: DK’s statement.

all I can say is guilty, guilty, guilty. if not to you, then to dozens if not hundreds of pr folk out there. sometimes I get 100 responses to a query, especially on profnet. there is not time enough in the day to get back to everyone. so please let me apologize for my journalism brethren and sisterns as well.

dt

]]> By: dan tynan http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1690 dan tynan Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:54:12 +0000 http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-1690 I posted this reponse a week ago, but it seems to not be here now, so I'm trying again. - dt I'm a reporter, not a "flack." And my immediate response is, what, this is news? Like this doesn't happen all the time? Two out of 18 is a poor batting average, but it's really not entirely out of the ballpark. Given the specificity of some of the queries I've been seeing ("I'd like to speak to someone who was given a massage by a Romanian dwarf between June and August 2005, preferably of Italian descent") I'm not at all surprised. This is the way it is. You send out a query, and you get back mostly a lot of crap. Desperate PR people who see a keyword they recognize and leap on it like a hyena on a T-bone steak. This is why I always ask people to respond to me via email only, so I can sift out the crap without having to get 'pitched' over the phone. The really bad ones are the ones who are totally off topic and call you anyway, despite the 'email only please' note. OK, now you can bitch about journalists for a while. peace out. dan tynan tynan on technology www.dantynan.com I posted this reponse a week ago, but it seems to not be here now, so I’m trying again. – dt

I’m a reporter, not a “flack.” And my immediate response is, what, this is news? Like this doesn’t happen all the time? Two out of 18 is a poor batting average, but it’s really not entirely out of the ballpark. Given the specificity of some of the queries I’ve been seeing (“I’d like to speak to someone who was given a massage by a Romanian dwarf between June and August 2005, preferably of Italian descent”) I’m not at all surprised.

This is the way it is. You send out a query, and you get back mostly a lot of crap. Desperate PR people who see a keyword they recognize and leap on it like a hyena on a T-bone steak.

This is why I always ask people to respond to me via email only, so I can sift out the crap without having to get ‘pitched’ over the phone. The really bad ones are the ones who are totally off topic and call you anyway, despite the ‘email only please’ note.

OK, now you can bitch about journalists for a while.

peace out.

dan tynan
tynan on technology
http://www.dantynan.com

]]> By: DK http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1687 DK Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:43:26 +0000 http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-1687 On the other hand, I did respond (directly) to one request, giving a brief outline of who I am and what my thoughts on the matter in question were. No reply, not even an acknowledgement. I know these people are busy, but a quick one-liner: "Thanks, but I've found enough sources for this one" or similar wouldn't have gone amiss. On the other hand, I did respond (directly) to one request, giving a brief outline of who I am and what my thoughts on the matter in question were. No reply, not even an acknowledgement. I know these people are busy, but a quick one-liner: “Thanks, but I’ve found enough sources for this one” or similar wouldn’t have gone amiss.

]]> By: Karen http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1684 Karen Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:44:31 +0000 http://shankman.com/i-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/#comment-1684 AMEN! but also *cringe*.... AMEN! but also *cringe*….

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