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Thursday 21 December 2006

Filed under: — Charles @ 12:33 pm

Conversations with PR people that are short

Bring!! I am at work. It is the phone. I am answering it.

PR person: Hello, I was calling to see if you’d like to meet someone, he’s the chief of a company that’s got an instant messaging product for the financial community, and–
Me: Sorry, why would that be relevant to our consumer-focused technology section?
PR: Well, I thought that because it’s IT, that–
Me: Have you read the section lately?
PR: Well, I know that you cover IT in the Online section, and–
Me: It hasn’t been called ‘Online’ for more than a year.
PR: Oh, um–
Me: Why don’t you give me a call back when you’ve read it?

It’s not even as if there are many “technology” or “IT” sections to have to keep up with in the nationals these days, either.

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