No Straw Men

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March 23rd, 2008 · by Jonathan Rick

Earlier this month, Kathryn Stetz of Qorvis Communications e-mailed TechCrunch, the world’s second most popular blog, asking to “order[] a reprint on an article” that appeared there.

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The response, a couple weeks later, came from the blog’s founder and co-editor, Michael Arrington: “We’re a blog. We don’t do prints, let alone reprints.”

Oops. Or as former Qorvis staffer Jesse Thomas comments, “Selling digital PR and not knowing that TechCrunch is a blog is definitely an embarrassment.”

Yet before we scapegoat Qorvis, I suggest that we consider the context in which this might have taken place.

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