Journalists pretend to hate PR people, but they secretly think about them all the time. Anita Bruzzese, Todd Bishop, Ina Fried and others revealed their obsession with flackery on Twitter, reporters' oversharing medium of choice.

Syndicated columnist Anita Bruzzese demanded prompt service from flacks.

TechFlash blogger Todd Bishop listened to a Googler sugarcoat the search engine's cutbacks.

Chris O'Brien of the San Jose Mercury News was less than thrilled to get pitched on pig spooge.


Twitter user Andy Ihnatko did not want to learn about the power of Twitter.

CNET's Ina Fried reported on Microsoft's new spin doctor.

Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please.

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