OMG: I’m Twittering.
Matt Dickman asked via Twitter (actually I use Twitterific):
If you pay for an ad in a paper and use a quote from an employee of that paper in the ad, is there a conflict? I am conflicted.
It’s the first real Twitter that was worth responding too. Of course, I only have a handful of Twitterers on my list.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Mark — Glad that tweet reached you. I was sitting in Starbucks reading the NY Times and saw an ad for a book with a quote from one of the NYTimes editors promoting it. Not sure what to think about it, but it made me a little uncomfortable.
What do you think?
June 29th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Not uncomfortable at all. Especially the NYT. Talk about walls between advertising and editorial! A good review from the NYT carries such weight, that it would be foolish not to use it.
Interesting that you would respond the way you did.
Thanks for making contact. And thanks for reading a print NEWSPAPER!
June 29th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Have I died and gone to heaven?
First - I a blog titled plainly and clearly - the newspaper business
Second - I see a post - on vending machines - tagged…circulation
Third - I see a relevant Twitter (or tweet? while being “on” there, I’ve not figured out the cryptic terminology) that actually addresses newspapers.
I’m about to faint…call the doctor…better yet maybe I just just breath in some pressroom air
June 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I guess it was the way it was done that made it weird. This wasn’t a review by the NYTimes book review. It was a pulled quote from a columnist. Just struck me as a little odd.
I have a Google alert set up with the URL of my blog so I was pinged when you posted this. I wanted to make sure I got your opinion though as this is not my game.
Thanks for responding! It’s good to read a newspaper now and then. It’s just harder to do.
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 am
@Bob: LOL - careful with that pressroom air! Thanks for your comments. Yes, the tweet (thanks Matt for termnology) surprised me too.
@ Matt: if it struck you as odd, it probably is.