Jay Rosen criticised PR bloggers because his research (using Technorati) found that few PR bloggers had addressed the Ketchum-Williams fiasco.
Rosen and Technorati stuffed up. At least four prominent PR bloggers posted on the subject and apparently didn’t get picked up in the Technorati seach. Dave Sifry of Technorati is looking into this, see PS at the end of the previous post on this site.
Rosen’s criticisms are still valid. And the industry, and PR bloggers, need to address these incidents of grossly unethical behaviour in a more a systematic and effective way.
But, Jay, as they say in news rooms (or used to in the good old days), check it. You shouldn’t make bold generalisations and name names just on the basis of a quick and dirty Technorati search.
It turns out the PR blogging community actually did a better job than your original story suggested.
UPDATE: Here’s another one Rosen missed in his rush to go to print.
Anyone got any more ‘missed’ comments.
WHOA: I’ve just found links to two more ‘missed posts’ – David Murray and Colin MacKay. That’s seven now, by my counting. Eight, including one in Spanish by Octavio Rojas.
It could turn out that I was one of a minority of bloggers who missed the story!!
What the hell happened at Technorati! Or did Jay misuse the search facility?
