We take a couple of weeks off and look what happens.
Our pot stirring friends at MediaBistro pointed us to Michael Arrington's latest pitch fit. Don't get us wrong, we love TechCrunch almost as much as we love Cap'n Crunch. But we take umbrage at Michael's recent statement:
"There's no shaming this industry [PR] into normal human behavior."
Michael, we're trying. And, if you asked around, I think you could argue we're making progress.
But Arrington leveling his statement at the entire public relations industry? Let's be realistic, Michael works with PR people. But none of the PR folks he works with would ever wind up on the Bad Pitch Blog as anything other than a guest post or a good pitch.
Well this is what we get for falling behind on our Bad Pitch homework.
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His comments are definitely out of line. As a profession we obviously have a lot of work to do in cleaning up our image,
ReplyDeleteArrington, schmarrington. I've never pitched the guy on anything, but I swear, sometimes I'd like to just to piss him off (Not that I would actually do such a thing...)
ReplyDeleteGood PRs roll their eyes at him, and bad ones will never know/care how much he complains. It's not going to change anything for him, and I can't believe he doesn't get that yet.