Sorry PR People: You’re Blocked
November 5th, 2007 | Published in Blogs, Culture, Email Marketing
This is just great. Chris Anderson the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail has had it with PR flacks and he is fighting back. I’ll let him explain from a recent blog post of his.
I’ve had it. I get more than 300 emails a day and my problem isn’t spam (Cloudmark Desktop solves that nicely), it’s PR people. Lazy flacks send press releases to the Editor in Chief of Wired because they can’t be bothered to find out who on my staff, if anyone, might actually be interested in what they’re pitching. Fact: I am an actual person, not a team assigned to read press releases and distribute them to the right editors and writers (that’s editor@wired.com).
So at the end of this post he is listing the email addresses of all the people that are too lazy to open something like a browser, much less any of the paid services and get the right POC. Scary thing, there are some pretty large PR firms on that list that should know how the process works.
