Russell Beattie hit a few nerves with his recent PR People Are Morons. His contention that there are many, many clueless PR flacks out there is well-founded, but the blanket indictment of PR as a whole has folks like Shel Israel and Anil Dash slapping his wrist. My hope is that the PR professionals that do get it will quickly wise up their clueless comrades, or else the PR trade will continue its plunge in respect. Russell is the one willing to overgeneralize to get attention on the real problem: PR folks attempting to short circuit the blogosphere for personal gain. [pointer from Micheal O'Connor Clark] [tags: PR People Are Morons, Russell Beattie, social+media]