From Phil Gomes:
A whole bunch of people are talking about this article from a magazine I don’t read.
Reminds me of something that started early in my career. Something I called “Wall Street Journal Syndrome.”
Even as a junior employee, it astounded me how a PR team could pole-vault over every expectation and every conceivable measuring stick, only to allow themselves to get beaten up for not getting a “hit” in the corner office’s favorite elite publication.
I thought things would’ve changed. I mean, the advent of social media is what kept me in PR.
Nope. You see, these days, we have the so-called blogger “A-list,” a desire to achieve same, and, as Henry Rollins once said, it’s just a case of the mouthwash swishing over to the other cheek.
Sure… On one hand, people who “get it” say that it’s not about pitching “elites” and such but, on the other, there’s just so much energy about “A-listers” or “influentials” or what-have-you. Compound that with some fairly insincere denials that such status matters, and you’ve got a recurring cerebellum-itch that vexes this funny-looking bald man to no end.
I love that Rollins quote! And the Gomesian wisdom.
