Blog Critique - Lauretta

For the readings for week 7, I gave a critique on Lauretta Parker's blog. It took me a while because I wrote out the whole thing and LITERALLY as I was moving the mouse to the 'publish post' button my computer froze and I had to restart it. I think I remembered everything the second time I wrote it though, but oh well.

Here it is:


Hi Lauretta.
I just wrote a massive comment about this and my computer froze! So let me try and remember everything I said...
I think we share the same sentiment about the misrepresentation of PR practitioners. I also don't think it is as black and white as some of those quotes suggest. I guess you'd need to think about how that also affects journalists though, I believe they can often be stereotyped or misrepresented. I get the impression that many believe there isn't a single journalist who wouldn't comprimise every one of their morals to get a lead, sadly. I liked that you formed your own opinion even if it didn't 100% comply with all of the content we read for this week.
As for the adequacy of this generation's writing skills, I believe one needs to consider the subjectivity of what is exactly 'adequate'. As spellchecking software develops and our conversations more frequently involve the cyber vernacular, we're becoming less dependant on learning the skills compared with before. The operative word being 'less', as there's no doubt of the importance of these skills, they are obviously still crucial. I just think maybe a change in the prioritisation of these skills is natural and maybe doesn't need to be fought against. Society will always change, it just happens.
I'm glad you found the 3rd article interesting. I'm still concerned I'll make a ton of mistakes, but at least I'll have some more perspective now. Well done on your blog though, you demonstrated to me a fine understanding of everything we read.
And I think I remembered everything I said the first time I tried to comment you... hopefully lol.