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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #320: February 18, 2008

Content summary: FIR Interview with Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund, posted; FIR Report from Ronna Porter on IABC EuroComm posted; listener poll on FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio: results so far; the Gawker vs Edelman kerfuffle; CNN fires producer for blogging; Reuters introduces Calais semantic web service; social network developments: seesmic, Sonico, Twitxer; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listeners’ comments discussion; music from The Frantic; and more.

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Show notes for February 18, 2008

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02/18/08 | 2 Comments | The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #320: February 18, 2008

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  • 1.This is for Connie Reece right? Oh I love her! I love her story. I love the cause that she fights for.

    Alicia | February 2008

  • 2.Glad you covered the ethics flap on Gawker/Edelman but am disappointed you basically just dismissed Gawker because "PR people don't read it." I'm not a PR practitioner but am considering a career in the field and the public perception (and the public reads sites like Gawker) is that PR people are shills who will say whatever a corporation pays them to say. Gawker is admittedly a "media gossip" site that will probably never name its sources, but there are legitimate sites like PR Watch (http://www.prwatch.org) that bring up ethical issues every day. I haven't seen any response to the issues PR Watch covers on any of the PR blogs or podcasts I read/listen to.

    I'm aware that most if not all of your listeners are already in the PR business, but surely all of us must try to live examined lives, personally and professionally.

    This example brought up a lot of issues for me, including how to read the statements of PR executives who talk like this for a living. It's hard to tell a lie from an omission of truth, a policy from a practice, and an ideal from a reality.

    James McNally | February 2008 | Toronto

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