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You have a rather credulous view of how the sausage gets made. The author of this piece is a freelance journalist[1] who has written numerous obvious submarine
by scottlocklin 7y ago
You have a rather credulous view of how the sausage gets made.
The author of this piece is a freelance journalist[1] who has written numerous obvious submarines[2]. Do you know how much a freelance journalist costs? Basically: nuthin! I could have put someone like that on my credit card when I was in grad school.
[1]http://www.jessicaebrown.com/writing http://www.jessicaebrown.com/writing
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- teilo 7y agoThank you for the PG article. Excellent read. I didn't know this term.
- bonoboTP 7y agoAlways interesting to re-read that article. Written in 2005, before Facebook got big, the last paragraphs says > PR people fear bloggers for the same reason readers like them. And that means there may be a struggle ahead. As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how. And today we have "influencers", native content marketing and Medium (etc) blogs that are way less authentic than what PG wrote about in this post.