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It’s still in use. It will not die. What must we do to kill it? It’s crawling from the grave wriggling, clinging to life in the information bog. It’s alive. It’s alive…
Why won’t the press release die? More precisely, why can’t we stop writing about its imminent death? See New PR Wiki Hot Issues: Press Releases to [...]

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Since I wrote the post What The Hell is Going on at Ford?, July 24, 2006, I have kept a close eye on Ford. How could you not? They are major business news - one of the goliath Top Three US auto companies fighting for its life.  The question six months ago was: can its Bold Moves [...]

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From the press release: WASHINGTON DC, January 23, 2007 - The Associated Press has partnered with the Media Bloggers Association (MBA) to distribute its members’ coverage of the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, to the news organization’s member websites, the bloggers group announced today. See vanguard, [...]

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When I saw my nephew Jeffrey on the first episode of Project Runway this past season I thought – wow, this will be an interesting and undoubtedly short lived adventure. The last time I saw Jeffrey was seven years ago in a dive on the lower east side. He was living in L.A., playing bass [...]

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Richard Edelman finally acknowledges the “significant chatter” about his firms’ ethical challenges in the blogosphere with a 1/12 post that essentially says he has nothing to say. The post is called Setting Expectations and he is very clear that our expectations for him addressing this issue or other front-page news about recent Edelman antics in the blogosphere should [...]

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U.S. Unit Patrolling Baghdad Sees Flaws in Bush Strategy is the title of the front-page Washington Post story today (subscription required), by Sudarsan Raghavan. The story is remarkable for several reasons. Most important, it is an unvarnished account of a US forces grunt patrol completely demoralized, cynical, abjectly fatalistic and ready to get the hell out [...]

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Us business news junkies would be lost groping in the information desert if not for constant breaking news updates from CNBC. CNBC is ubiquitous on the brokerage room floor, in news bureaus, PR agencies - anywhere business is done, analyzed or reported on. They make business news visual and give it personality (how interesting can you make a [...]

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