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Future.com was more PR than news. It reminds me of Paul Graham's old essay on PR firms, which unintentionally(?) contained the best advertisement for the NYT I
by lifefeed 4y ago
Future.com was more PR than news.
It reminds me of Paul Graham's old essay on PR firms, which unintentionally(?) contained the best advertisement for the NYT I've ever read.
> At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Their reporters do go out and find their own stories, at least some of the time. They'll listen to PR firms, but briefly and skeptically. We managed to get press hits in almost every publication we wanted, but we never managed to crack the print edition of the Times.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- gcanyon 4y agoThat is a hell of a recommendation.
- notfromhere 4y agoA tech venture capital firm starting a publication to write about tech is always going to be PR. It's not like Future.com was ever going to write a piece about an AH company that is bad.
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- joshu 4y agoi chuckle every time this article comes up, since it was originally about me.