PR company has different mailing list for different teams?

It's weird. I have been dealing with Burson Masteller for a long time, particularly since they represent HP, which I deal with a lot. So I could not understand why I was left out recently when BM send out a press invite for their client the Media Development Authority. I only found out about the press conference when my colleague Ian cced my the invite.

So I asked BM to clarify. "Am I not on your list of tech reporters? Or do you have different list for different teams within your company?" went my e-mail.

And this was the answer "We do have separate teams in B-M working on different projects. As a rule of thumb, we usually send invitations to only 3 to 4 people from a publication. Reason being we are careful not to flood the news room with the same email. "

Now that's intersting since TNP only has two tech reporters, me and Ian. So I asked BM who else did they send the invite to at TNP? To be continued....