Public relations firm Creative Response Concepts replies to our post from earlier today: Press Room - crc4pr.com.

CRC President Greg Mueller released the following statement:

“Please understand, we never meant to imply that the blogosphere is something we did, or even could, control or direct.No one controls the bloggers. The extraordinary depth and breadth of their talent and resources only breeds one thing: a fierce independence much needed in the country. They are a forcethe PR industry and news media need to pay greaterattention to.

”In the interview with PR Week, we tried to communicate that the bloggers, and then CNS www.cnsnews.com, were moving this story, which we then began pushing to conservative media, news websites and “mainstream” press.

“If anything, we’re just proud that our client, CNS News, provided some hard news reporting to add some gasoline to the already rampant wildfire that the bloggers had started. Do we deserve credit for that? Not nearly as much as the guys at PowerLine, Instapundit, LittleGreenFootballs, INDCJournal, Allahpundit, and so many others deserve.”

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