Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

'Go ahead and be mad at me. I''ve been remiss and spent the majority of February thinking about the business of PR, wondering about pitches bad and good (*mostly bad*) and haven''t written a darn thing in this box. I''ve gotten so many letters pitching interviews mistakenly - and they ARE mistakes - sent to me "as cofounder of the Bad Pitch Blog," that I''ve started to wonder if ANYONE in our industry ever takes a second look at who they''re sending anything to.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

'Social media gives bad pitch recipients an eager audience to witness, with reality-TV like glee, the horror landing in their in boxes on a daily basis. In fact, the tools available to us online now allow us to vent in a variety of ways. Boing-Boing points us to this all too familiar exchange around embargoes. We have a free and powerful production studio available to us online folks.

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Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

'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.

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