GoBlueRidge.net - Area Public Relations Firm Wins Awards for Work with Alleghany’s Sesquicentennial - Constantly Updated High Country NC News Source

Overall

Registered | 10/29/2009 10:32AM

A public relations firm earns an award, they send out their OWN press release, and GBR posts the "news."

Imaging Specialists' sales agents should use this to prove how easy it is for their copy folks to manipulate "big market" media giants. They'd make a killing in new accounts.

Just call me Bill

Registered | 10/29/2009 11:00AM

Overall, could you please post a definition of what is to be considered news so that we mere mortals will know what is acceptable? After all, some one wanting the services of a public relations firm would have no interest in this, would they? I can understand that anyone as omnipotent as you would never need these services, but the rest of us might. :confused:

Overall

Registered | 10/29/2009 4:24PM

Pretty much anything can technically be considered news, Bill. But that's not the key point here.

My quotation marks were used simply to call attention to GBR's near-total reliance on submissions by outsiders as opposed to their mustering the journalistic integrity to investigate, report and FOLLOW UP on news matters of broader import to the community. Basically, their laziness forces them to print whatever is handed to them and call it "news."

Instead of spending yet another day of reprinting business' and politicians' self-serving, one-sided, unqualified press releases, would it not be refreshing if GBR were to actually follow up on the Boone Mall homeless guy stabbing story from this summer or the progress of the ASU date rape case from last winter? How about a piece that gives a bit more insight into why it is that an inordinate number of people are going to Ashe County to kill themselves?

But, see, we'll likely not read those stories unless and until the Boone Police Department and the Ashe County Sheriff's office compose and distribute their own press releases because nobody at GBR appears to have the stones to pose a potentially uncomfortable question to a person of authority.

Yes, Bill, that award, self-reported by the PR firm that won it, can indeed be considered news, but then so can my announcing a list of reasons for selecting one particular toilet tissue over another.

Maybe I should type that up and shoot it over to Adam. Better yet, if I can get Virginia Foxx's press secretary Aaron Groen to submit it for me, it'll be posted word-for-word to GBR without so much as a spell-check run.

keylimey

Registered | 10/29/2009 10:38PM

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tardyhardy

Registered | 10/30/2009 12:16AM

These are super nice folks... always very helpful. Congratulations!

keylimey

Registered | 10/31/2009 1:29PM

Overall, my apologies; I saw the text length and assumed a meaningless rant. Instead, on actually reading it, I thought it was well thought out, composed and had worthy content.