“This story seems to me not to pass the smell test. It makes the innuendo of impropriety, even corruption, without backing it up.”
David Mccumber, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, on why he did nor carry the McCain story about a relationship with a lobbyist.
“Fouad Mourtada, like thousands of people who create fake profiles of well-known personalities or celebrities on Facebook, has in no way acted in a willingness to cause nuisance to Your Highness.”
A plea for clemency from the family of Mr. Mourtada, a computer engineer in Morocco jailed for impersonating a member of the royal family on Facebook.
“Get out your palette. It’s time to do some 21st Century cave painting.”
Chris Young, Video Insider.
“The views expressed on my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent, were mine and mine alone. I represented no one but myself, and I didn’t make a dime doing it.”
Chez Pazienza, a producer at CNN who was fired for blogging, and was told “We have people within the company whose job is specifically to research this kind of thing in regard to employees.”
“It was an agonising decision for me.”
Toshiba president, Atsutoshi Nishida, on stopping the production of HD DVD, and ending its battle with Blu-ray , a DVD standard adopted by major manufacturers who are part of the Blu-ray Disc Association.
“The beauty of digital PR is that its “rules” have not been written yet. You can write them.”
Mark Stevens, author, at PRNewsOnline.
“Congress is broken. Lawrence Lessig can debug it”
Words on the U.S. Flag image used on a Facebook group to support Lessig, the Stanford law professor and founder of Creative Commons, who announced that he may run for Congress from the state of California’s 12th district.
“It’s a handoff … They’re friends and allies. They share a view of politics and often riff off of each other.”
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