Dear PR,

A journalist letting the public relations industry know how they can do a better job—one tweet at a time. Send us your PR friendly suggestions/angry gripes!

[Amy-T-Ville Horror 🍂🔥🎃 @TrashTaylor]

Just got my first “Dear Sir/Madam” PR of 2018!

[Britni Danielle @BritniDWrites]

Dear PR peeps who slide in my inbox asking for coverage. My name isn't Danielle.

Thanks!

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

If I don't get a PR pitch in the next hour about how Facebook would be better off ranking news trustworthiness using the blockchain, I will be extremely disappointed.

[Danielle Blake (Dodgers Delenda Est) @abradacabla]

nothing says "totally great and well-thought out PR stunt" like winding up with a picture of Dear Leader above a message saying "error" all over the Internet

[Therese Apel @TRex21]

.@DearPR,
If you ask what my deadline is and I say my deadline is ASAP, then... No. There is no more specific time. I regret to inform you that I cannot give you a drop-dead deadline. The drop-dead time is now, or as close to now as possible. 🙂
XOXO,
T

[Jared Newman @OneJaredNewman]

Do you want to tell him or should I tell him

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Registered for CES but didn't go to CES but I still get all the CES pitches so it's grrrrrreat.

[Lisa McKinnon ☮️ 🪷 @805foodie]

Dear PR person: Nope. Nope to the idea that I need to schedule an interview with your client so he can "talk me through" his latest product launch. #prfail

[Daniel Roberts @readDanwrite]

Dear PR people: happy new year! please stop pitching "deskside" meetings. there's no such thing as a deskside meeting. no reporter has ever done a deskside meeting. everyone in the newsroom would be annoyed. expunge the term from your pitch strategy. happy new year

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

Dear PR folks:
I am not going to @CES.
I no longer cover tech for @HuffPost or @TechRepublic.
Sunlight is not going to write about your AI/VR/AR/drone/car/battery/app/gadget.
Please update your lists, as your emails are going straight to my circular file.
Thank you!
#CES18 #CES

[Alana Abramson @aabramson]

In daily PR pitches of the day...

"Dear Alana,

It’s divorce season! According to legal experts, January is most popular time of year for Americans to file for divorce."

[Theo Francis @theofrancis]

Dear PR people: Cut it out with the cryptocurrency pitches, OK? I don't think I've ever written about them, and have no plans to in the immediate future.

[Standard Definition @briandroitcour]

PR people are asking for "feedback" now?

[Richard Lawson @rilaws]

Selections from one of the most annihilating PR emails I received this year, just under the wire

[@Jamilahlemieux on Threads @JamilahLemieux]

A reminder: no one wants an email from you until next week. Even if they are back at their desk today.

[Tanya Andreasyan @TanyaBankTech]

#DearPR calling someone “king of the disruptors” banishes you to the 9th circle of #fintech hell. @DearPR

[Matt Ford @fordm]

No matter how much I write about lethal injections, Supreme Court rulings, mental illness in jails, and the Russia investigation, PR folks still ask me if I'm working on any holiday gift guides this week.

[Chelsea Lynn @chelshud]

@DearPR Don't send me fidget spinners as a gift for a review then ask for them back

[Jared Keller @jaredbkeller]

An editor friend at a lifestyle website who will remain nameless politely declined to review some cutting-edge thingamabob that some start-up sent her.

The PR flack's response: "Well, if my parents were still alive I would definitely get one for them."

[Mike Murphy @mcwm]

CES pitches are like weeds — you delete a bunch and then twice as many spring up in their place