CTIA: The PR Spam-A-Lot

This will only be of interest to the journalists reading this…so the big CTIA show is coming up in about two weeks, and the PR onslaught is on. I am not even registered to attend the show (our exec editor Staci Kramer is) and somehow my name is on the list from previous shows. Which is bad to begin with, and then I am getting 50-100 e-mails a day and about 10-15 calls, from vendor and technology companies (well, their PR agencies) asking to set up meetings. This is borderline spamming, if you ask me.
The worst part is most of the people contacting have no idea of what we cover (the content and content business part of it, not the technology part), and half the time even mis-spell my name.
It used to be aggressive in previous CTIA shows, but this time it is ridiculous…CTIA should review how and who they give out their media registrations to. Does CTIA get paid for giving PR agencies and companies access to the list? There is an opt-out for journalists at the time of registration, but that doesn’t seem to work, really.

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