Journalists = A Beautiful married woman in a nightclub surrounded by drunken men
Published May 8th, 2006 in GeneralJournalists are right to be cynical. They get rung on a daily basis by people like myself pitching their clients. However, it gets worse. Work doesn’t finish at 5.30pm (or whenever the deadline is), because people are always trying to sell them a story.
I was slightly taken aback at the ICT Excellence Awards about how badgered journalists were by people trying to get a bit of coverage for their companies. Before you say it, these weren’t people working in PR, but company execs. At times it felt like journalists were more comfortable talking to me, a lecherous PR practitioner 
I couldn’t help but notice that a tech journalist at an event like the ICT Excellence Awards is a bit like a beautiful woman in a nightclub surrounded by drunken men, despite the fact that her wedding ring is visible to everyone around her. For some strange reason at the start of the night, I was wondering how come there weren’t more tech journalists there!
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That’s a good analogy except I think it gives tech-journalists too much credit.
Tech journalists are merely the condom machines in the men’s toilets. I have this on good authority from a tech journalist who admits he spends most of his time at these events leaning against a wall in the gents….
MJ
Right said, but when the execs or the PR guys are from top companies like IBM or Microsoft; then the beautiful married women started flirting around with these guys herself.
“Can I buy you lunch?” “Sure.”
“Can I bring you along to a football match?”. “Sure.”
“Can I bring you along to a rugby match?”. “Sure.”
“Want to come to America with me and the lads?”. “Ok.”
“Want to come to a U2 gig?”. “Fine by me.”
Maybe there’s a reason the drunken men think she’s loose?
The drunken men are having trouble getting rid of a second ticket to Roy Keane’s testimonial tonight apparently. I wish I was a tech journalist