Quotes of the week - featuring Marr, Ryanair, Gap
It's the week's best media and marketing news from the mouths of those making the headlines.
"A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people."
Dashingly handsome BBC presenter Andrew Marr takes a bizarre swipe at bloggers over their looks.
"All roads were leading us back to the blue box, so we’ve made the decision not to use the new logo on Gap.com any further... We’ve learned a lot in this process. And we are clear that we did not go about this in the right way. We recognize that we missed the opportunity to engage with the online community.
Marka Hansen, president of Gap North America, reveals that the clothes company has gone back to its old logo after its new branding was slaughtered online.
"I had to constantly contact you guys at Mission to find out what was going on. No one dealing with this project seemed to make an effort to touch base with me regularly. When I did get in touch with you, the standard response was that you were waiting to hear back from Nokia and would get back to me in a few days. You rarely did.”
Blogger Muireann Carey-Campbell hits out at PR firm Mission who, on behalf of its client Nokia, commissioned her to blog about running a half marathon only to renege on promises to cover phone, travel and accommodation costs.
"The company had no inkling of the government's thinking, and was only informed by letter last night."
Ten Alps boss Alex Connock says his company had no idea that the government was about to pull its £10m contract with the firm to run the Teachers TV channel.
“Does this mean you can’t take the piss out of anyone anymore?”
Comedian Tommy Shepherd ponders the potentially stifling nature of the BBC's new editorial guidelines, established to avoid a repeat of Sachsgate.
"Policing is often seen in very simple terms, with cops chasing robbers and locking them up. However the reality is that this accounts for only part of the work they have to deal with."
Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, explains the force's decision to publish on Twitter every single call it received over 24 hours on Thursday, including "call 795 - Report of man not walking a dog in popular dog walking spot".
"He has embroiled his tax-payer funded organisation in a political and commercial battle that it should have nothing to with."
The Times uses its leader column to stick up for its owner Rupert Murdoch and berate BBC director general Mark Thompson for signing a letter to Vince Cable encouraging the business secretary to block Murdoch's bid to buy the remaining 61% of BSkyB he does not already own.
"Unfortunately, Lyingair won the dispute on a small technicality concerning €365 generated through affiliate deals, but never fear, we have already moved the site to its new home on www.ihateryanair.org and will continue to provide you with all the latest on how this pathetic excuse for an airline will attempt to extract cash from you through sneaky hidden charges, fly you to places that are not where you actually want to go and leave you stranded when the cr*p hits the fan.”
Robert Tyler is forced to hand over the ihateryanair.co.uk domain after a tribunal but pledges to keep holding the budget airline to account on his new site, ihateryanair.org.