You would think that after the countless years of Bloggers calling out PR professionals on bad pitches that things would change. You would be wrong. In the spirit of trotting out another dead horse: could PR pitches be any worse? The boatload of emails that are not personalized or relevant to the co...

Earlier in the month I wrote about a promotion Kahlua was doing -- KAHLÚA® SAVES THE HOLIDAY PARTY! With so many companies going under, cutting staff and giving up on any sort of holiday cheer, I thought it was a pretty cool idea for Kahlua to let companies enter to win $10K to “save their party...

Yesterday I had an interesting experience. A PR professional from an agency elsewhere in the United States sent me a pitch over email for the blog. It, um, wasn’t a great pitch. The subject line was a bit confusing. She let me know she liked one of my recent blog posts but then copied and past...

There was a bit of a dust-up recently about making lists of “bad PR people” and it’s taken me a while to get to this because I’ve been answering emails from PR folks.  I put out a call on ProfNet that Manscaping 101 (my men’s grooming blog on b5media) was open for ...

I’ll be taking a look at Southwest’s overall response to the report that they had been flying “unairworthy” planes. This controversy relates to missed or overlooked inspections, small or tiny cracks, a thumbs up by a FAA inspector, and a short period of continued flying viola...