In Oklahoma, they say the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
In the U.K., Spin Goddess Julia Hobsbawm says PR people and journalists should be friends. So she created a venture called Editorial Intelligence to bring them together.
It’s been a PR disaster for all involved, although we’re still not exactly sure why. Read the whole saga here.
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The farmer and the cowmen will never be friends. Farmers have fences, cowmen need to run.
But, there used to be an organization in SF/SV called Hacks and Flacks, which was supposed to bring together the two, for drinks, I think. Wasn’t part of it, so don’t know.
The ironic thing – um, whatever happened to PR Managers and up in corporations having … media contacts and relationships?