Our Top Ten List of Bad Media Relations

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According to journalists, too many organizations .....

  1. Write long, boring press releases that don't stand a chance of being published.
  2. Send in dull and boring photographs which don't stand a chance of being printed.
  3. Send these boring press releases and dull photographs to the wrong people anyway - bad targeting.
  4. Send these boring press releases and photographs not only to the wrong people but also at the wrong time - normally after the deadline.
  5. Hold press conferences unnecessarily - 90% are a waste of time, money and effort.
  6. When they do hold potentially interesting press conferences, they do so in a long winded, badly organized and ill-timed fashion.
  7. When they have got something to say they do not, invariably, individually 'tailor' their PR approach.
  8. Rarely think up creative suggestions - or 'angles' - of the type that might titillate the interest of a journalist.
  9. Spell the editor's name incorrectly, or get it wrong altogether.
  10. Make these same mistakes time and time again.

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