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Very impressed with the anger-vent / public service approach The Bad Pitch Blog launched last week (thanks to Tom Murphy for the link).

Such a good idea, justified thus:

We’re tired of the public relations industry taking the blame for a
minority of its members that pollute communication channels with bad
pitches, poorly written news releases and useless phone calls asking
"did you get the release?"… So we’re outing the guilty parties in full view of the highly-networked blogosphere.

In a similar vigilante vein, lawyers for UK PR firms will be dusting off their writs at the news that Spin Bunny, that scurrilous scourge of the industry has limped back out of the warren. It shut down last year when, it received:

…a second gagging order within six
months. Quite a feat really. The PR industry really is that up its own
arse. And paranoid.

Who says we’re paranoid? Who?

The posts so far seem fairly tame, but I expect we’re all secretly hoping its fangs will bared again soon and that we won’t be on the receiving end too often. [Full disclosure: Harvard was on the receiving end of some bunny bile in one of its last posts on the first blog – but it weren’t us that killed bunny, guv, honest.]

: : UPDATE: I had to add this quote from Bad Pitch here, as it sums up the effort brilliantly, because it made me laugh so much – it should be their strap-line: "Every day I’m faced with a decision: do I "tell on my peers" or just ignore the fact so many people who do PR just plainly suck."