Jeremy Wagstaff from Dow Jones and the terrific LOOSE wire blog explains exposes the perils of relying too much on media databases by dissecting one PR person's poor attempt of a blog pitch.
Jeremy says...
Bottom line: I don't mind being pitched. And I don't mind it that much if the product is actually either too old to really get excited about, or too far away from the stores to burden readers with it. But couldn't these media research databases, and the people who use them, do a bit of basic research (it's called 'Googling') before they fire off their pitches? We bloggers, just like journalists, are a sensitive lot and hate to feel we're being taken for a ride by folk who haven't done their homework first. Otherwise it looks dangerously like spam.
