He either didn't know what he was getting into or didn't know how to go about it.
Instead of being dismissed as self-serving hucksters who warp the truth and kowtow to clients, publicists are getting too much respect and some don't know how to handle it.
"They are getting access to data that I don't even know is being stored somewhere and resold to them, " he said.
On Friday Yahoo's website still hadn't corrected a page titled "Getting to know Yahoo's New CEO" in which the errant computer science degree is listed in one of the "six fun facts" about Mr. Thompson.
Then again, if you're willing to hand big bucks to someone you don't know for a product you have not even laid eyes on, getting ripped off would appear to be the least of your problems.
We'll be honest, we didn't really know what we were getting ourselves into when we headed to BlackBerry's SXSW event.
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If you're living with one of these guys, you know that straightforward methods of getting them to follow directions or behave often don't work.
And I think there were a lot of people out there that, you know, ended up getting stuck in positions we didn't want to be in.
Maybe it won't last, but Democrats, you know, by and large seem to be getting pretty much what they want out of this.
And I really felt that, you know, television is a powerful medium, but we just weren't getting enough time to tell the stories - a minute, 32 minutes.
She told Sarah Montague that hidden speech difficulties were sometimes to blame, but other times children were not getting "wide, rich dialogue" from their families, partly because parents "don't know how" to talk to their young ones.
With backers such as Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, the company developed patented technology that allows merchants to sell goods in a sort of blind auction where consumers don't know precisely what they are getting but can win large discounts.
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