Friday, December 09, 2005

Jeff Jarvis needs to get over himself

Jeff Jarvis says bloggers should ignore PR people and our news releases. His post was inspired by a presentation on blog relations that he knows was terrible without even seeing it.

I am mildly curious, who elected Jeff Jarvis?

Seriously, isn’t writing, in blogs or any medium, about providing something interesting for readers? Either a news release would interest your readers or it wouldn’t. If it is interesting to your readers, I don’t see that it matters that the motives of those who sent it were impure. What is important is providing your readers with something worthwhile.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with you. Sometimes press releases can be very valuable.

Alice said...

Thank you, that is high praise indeed coming from such a source.