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Screaming press releases!!!!!!

By ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Most journalists have a love/hate relationship with public relations companies and press releases. Here’s why: You’re on deadline for a story. The phone rings. You pick it up hoping that it’s the person you’ve been stalking all day for a quote. The editor looks at you sternly and taps his watch. The person on the [...]

Toxic tips from D’Oh School of Economics

By ⋅ October 3, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Originally published as a business column in The Irish Times, October 3, 2008 BREAKING NEWS: Homer Simpson has been operating the controls of the international financial system for the last several years. Mr Simpson, normally the animated nuclear safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Plant, is known to spend much of his time eating doughnuts, [...]

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