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Re: OT "He is" or "I am"
I just remembered a good advice someone once gave me, that I forgot
to write into my other post on this topic. If you intend to write an
online (or elsewhere) bio to target journalists and other media
VIP's, please ask some journalist friend either to write it or at
least to read what you have written and give some constructive (truly
unforgiving) feedback. One important point when providing a "half
short" bio or press release is to both leave out areas to let
journalists "be a good pro and find out facts by ones own
journalistic skills" and to provide some text blocks that could be
pasted into an article (if the journalist should be busy and "forced"
into this less professional writing technique). The art of penning
press releases is to know your targeted audience and correctly pitch
the level between the explicitly written facts, the implied facts
and the deliberately left out facts. Back when record labels still
were selling lots of discs each label used to keep at least one
employee of this skill, but today the rule is to pay a freelance
writer to do it.
per