![]() He would tell them to write a letter to the editor, and in one instance snarled, “I disagree with what you’re saying, but I’ll defend to your death your right to say it.”Īs for more minor errors, our policy was that if we spelled the name wrong, that was the way it should be spelled. ![]() I was intimidated by them, but not Fitz-Morris. The flacks would call to hector us and demand redress. Usually, they were about context-we did tend to sensationalize things at times. This was the same Fitz-Morris who reveled in breaking scoops on the World Of Advertising radio show and in DM News.Īnother irritant was corrections. ![]() But I once saw my boss at DM News, the legendary Joe Fitz-Morris, get red in the face and berate a PR person when Ad Age received an announcement before we did. ![]() When it was a big story, they might messenger it over. Postal Service would deliver the press release by the time they called. They called on the phone incessantly to tell you about some “news” or other, but there was no guarantee that the U.S. When I started out in business journalism 30 some-odd years ago, PR flacks were viewed strictly as an annoyance.
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