Bollocks
Advertising, advertising... I get to one of these 'stories', to be told, "Sorry, I meant to call you guys this morning, but I've been so busy. I've decided I don't want to do it.""Don't want to do...what?" I ask.
"Yeah, I don't really think we need to advertise right now. Sorry."
"I'm not with advertising," I reply tersely.
"Oh. So...what are you here for?" he asks.
"I'm supposed to get a picture of you over a radiator and do a short piece on how your body shop now does radiator work as well," I say, realising now how ridiculous a premise this is for a news story, and becoming angry at the thought of doing the work of advertising again.
"Yeah, well, we probably don't need the advertising."
Alright mate, you're either smart enough to realise that without the accompanying paid ad you probably won't get the story in, or too stupid to agree to let me take a photo and do a story, basically free advertising without the ad, but I'm not wasting any more of my bloody time here.
It was all I could do not to peel out of there.
the earley edition - Posted by Dave @ 7/14/2004 03:39:00 pm || ||
