The blogosphere was atwitter Friday over a good, old-fashioned Memphis bashing by a digital media expert who should have known better. James Andrews of Atlanta caused such an uproar that his bosses at Ketchum public relations apologized for inadvertently trashing major client FedEx’s hometown via a post on Twitter by …

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