Comments on: Be Careful What You Cluck

By: John Wilcox

John Wilcox — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:56:16 +0000

Great running into you yesterday, Rachel! I LOVE your blog–fun, interesting, entertaining, great. And, as a former PR man (back in the day when we smoked, smiled and dialed our way through a media pitch…off of printed lists, no less!), this whole idea of “off the record” in this new media world is intriguing. The lines are definitely much blurrier. Regardless, I guess telling someone on live air to have sex with barnyard fowl–especially when the guy was just saying it might rain tomorrow–is probably not the way to keep something hush-hush. At least that hasn’t changed! Go Ernie.

By: Sasha Muradali

Sasha Muradali — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:33:26 +0000

Wow — I only heard about this via your blog Rachel, and that’s crazy.

I think that sometimes people forget themselves, and it’s something you absolutely cannot do in our field or ones similarly.

Basically, you shouldn’t say anything that you are not comfortable with Google and Bing finding out.

By: communikaytrix

communikaytrix — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:19:39 +0000

Mike,

You are nuts. Thanks for humor – I’ll call up PETA now.

Rachel

By: communikaytrix

communikaytrix — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:18:45 +0000

Good points Shannon – thanks for your thoughts!

By: @mikeschaffer

@mikeschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:04:42 +0000

LOVE THIS post!

(Other smart folks have responded perfectly to the PR point, so I’ll just stick to the poor attempts at comedy here!)

By saying “keep f-ing the chicken,” the anchor is implying that the weatherman was already in the act of defiling said fowl! Why isn’t PETA on this????

Did we miss part of the weather forecast where the guy said “Cloudy with a chance of chicken loving?”

If doing nasty acts to chickens was all it took to keep the weather nice…wait…I’m not going to go there…

By: Lauren Fernandez

Lauren Fernandez — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:50:32 +0000

I think that PR professionals and journalists have a completely different view of off-the-record. Frankly, you should never say anything that you don’t want out there – you never know when it will come back and bite you.

By: Shannon Aronin

Shannon Aronin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:04:28 +0000

“Live your life openly. Learn to be guarded in public.” I just re-read this, sorry. I meant just don’t do or say things you don’t want in public because everywhere is public now.

By: Shannon Aronin

Shannon Aronin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:31 +0000

Ok, I definitely have thoughts on how unforgiving the internet is, journalistic integrity, etc. But to sum up, re-define privacy. Live your life openly. Learn to be guarded in public. And the internet is a public space.

However, I think the more interesting question has remained unanswered here. WTH did Keep f****** that chicken mean? It says he apologized… for mispronunciation? For poor taste? For overly creative imagery?

Did find this other reference from Super Troopers that someone else on a message board google pulled up posted:

By: communikaytrix

communikaytrix — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:26:51 +0000

Danny – Completely agree with you. That drive to share off the record information is what keeps the tabloids in print (that and readers like me who love gossip )

By: Maryse

Maryse — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:51 +0000

Totally agree with Rachel. Everything can be broadcast so easily and quickly to the whole world those days that there is no such thing as ‘off the record’ anymore. Live with the thoughts that whatever you say or do, can be seen by the whole world, act and talk with uptmost integrity. If you are having difficulty to control your thoughts, words or actions see a life coach.