Category Archives: Firms

Clumsy ex-journos create PR disaster for Burson Marsteller

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gerry

Hat tip to Ragan’s PR Daily; a couple of mud-slinging, ex-journos who have fence-jumped into PR for Burson Marsteller find themselves the uncomfortable subjects of an embarrassing media story in USA. It appears they’ve been trying to dish the dirt … Continue reading →

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Journalist publishes list of ‘useless’ British PRs

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Gerry

A UK freelance journalist, Kevin Braddock, published (then hastily deleted) a list (along with e-mail addresses) on his blog of the most useless, incompetent PR people he had dealings with during 2009. The list is/was several hundreds long and included … Continue reading →

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Alleged top Aussie blogger spams PR Disasters

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Gerry

I just got, well, spammed; a press release about a hairdresser-turned-software developer plopped in my email box with this simple intro…Hope this story might be a good fit for your blog. Regular PR Disaster readers might know I’m not big on covering hairdresser/software tales, … Continue reading →

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Was inept PR expert, actually a journo?

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Gerry

Adding to my ever-growing list of journos who make for dubious PR advisers, may be one Scarlett MccGwire, named by UK leftsheet The Grauniad as a media trainer paid a share of circa $AU50,000 to train Haringey council honchos, under flak after the death of an … Continue reading →

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Techcrunch outs a testy PR spammer

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Gerry

Brendan Cooper flagged what Techcrunch see as yet another tale of a A-list PR A-hole.

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Photon ‘spins’ Oz’s first/fourth Social Media agency launch

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Gerry

Photon Group erroneously claims ‘first Social Media agency’ status? Continue reading →

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UK author attacks flacks, hacks and churnalism

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Gerry

Ina PR disaster for flacks and hacks, UK journo Nick Davies attacks the cult of ‘churnalism’ in today’s media. Continue reading →

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Bank PR ‘outed’ via Social Media interview

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Gerry

National Australia Bank has distanced itself from a PR consultancy (p’raps Cox & Inall), which attempted to spam post commercial messages on several leading Aussie sports blogs. Local SEO practitioner Jim Stewart tele-interviewed NAB PR Felicity Glennie Holmes who asserted … Continue reading →

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