“It’s been the mother of train wreck PR campaigns.”
Elaine Lui, a correspondent for CTV, commenting on Britney’s fall from grace with her single “Gimme More.”
“Some day we will be at a fire or a car accident and we will be called upon to put the camera down and help.”
John Long, Ethics Co-Chair and Past President of the National Press Photographers Association, commenting on an incident in New York’s Times Square where an employee of MediaVest (a brand building agency) was photographed waking around with just one sock.
“It is, we fear, the authorities’ belief that what you are about to read here is against the law to publish.”
Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, commenting on the subpoena of all articles from the Phoenix New Times related to Sheriff Joe Arpaio from January 2004 to present.
“It is nothing short of embarrassing that as we try to sell Phoenix as a progressive city coming into its own we are locked in a cartoon vision of the old west where the Sheriff runs the town.”
Amanda Blum, commenting on a post in ValleyPRBlog, about the arrest of Phoenix New Times owners for publishing a story about a subpoena demanding information about online readers.
“Actually you won.”
Brian Lusk, Manager of Customer Communication, on Nuts about Southwest blog’s winning Best Blog in the Blog category at PRNews 2007 Platinum PR Awards. Nuts even beat OgilvyPR’s Lenovo blog, and Yahoo.
“That subpoena is grossly, shockingly, breathtakingly overbroad.”
James Weinstein, a professor at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, commenting on the Phoenix New Times case.
“Every day I’m seeing more and more Social Media tailors peddling invisible clothes.”
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