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June 18, 2011 12:58 am GMT
There's currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that's a bit sensitive, so no one really likes to talk about: we (journalists, bloggers, etc) are at war with the PR industry.That sentence alone with throw the PR flacks into a tizzy. "Hyperbole!" "Sexy statement, no substance!" "Don't believe everything you read!" And all the other bullshit they typically spew to blunt interesting concepts into dull, gray PR-friendly dribble. We are at war.And no, this isn't about dumbass embargoes (though that remains a huge problem that the PR industry doesn't seem to have any real interest in solving). This goes deeper.
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There's currently something going on in the outskirts of the tech world that's a bit sensitive, so no one really likes to talk about: we (journalists, bloggers, etc) are at war with the PR industry.That sentence alone with throw the PR flacks into a tizzy. "Hyperbole!" "Sexy statement, no substance!" "Don't believe everything you read!" And all the other bullshit they typically spew to blunt interesting concepts into dull, gray PR-friendly dribble. We are at war.And no, this isn't about dumbass embargoes (though that remains a huge problem that the PR industry doesn't seem to have any real interest in solving). This goes deeper.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-oIJfFF2Gm4/
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