PR With or Without Brains?

Time is a funny thing.

Five years ago this week, I embargoed a story to The Wall Street Journal about the merger of my website, DotcomScoop.com, “a wireless news group and Web site devoted to news and gossip about Internet companies,” and NetSlaves, “a six-person shop that focuses on discussions and feature stories about the perils of employment at Web companies,” according to the article. (Read more…)

PR People Behaving Badly

One of the responsibilities of a PR person is to mitigate the damage done to the reputation of employers and clients. Unfortunately, in recent weeks, it’s been PR people who are actually inflicting the damage. (Read more…)

Repeating the Past

Here we go again.

Last year it was Fox News Channel; this year, it’s Google. The crime? PR people blacklisting journalists because they’re not happy with a media outlet’s coverage. (Read more…)