There’s a reason politicians spend many hours being trained to juggle issues and spout statements that won’t blow up in their faces.
Apparently, Hillary Clinton’s vow to “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel wasn’t a slip of the tongue. Now she’s suggesting (ABC News) a potential assassination of presidential nomination opponent Barack Obama is a good […]
The story about the messed up yearbook photos gets better.
Lifetouch National School Studios reportedly was trying to fix their mess-up of a batch of photos when they botched the job even further by trying to paste faces onto other bodies.
My criticism of their weasely attempt to duck their responsibility goes double with the revelation that […]
A yearbook publisher screwed up in a major way when an employee pasted students’ heads on other bodies.
Lifetouch National School Studios apologized and offered to re-do the publication prep and pay for reprinting the high school yearbook.
Then, instead of shutting up, they went on to explain that the high school involved made an “unusual and […]
It’s great having a mentor.
They give you the benefit of their years of experience.
TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington was happy to offer Loic Lemeur and his start-up company Seesmic the following advice, in a posting published to TechCrunch Saturday. (Arrington was furious that a Seesmic plug-in brought down TechCrunch three times when a Steven Speilberg promotion […]
It’s been a busy week of accusations, gnashing of teeth, and protests of innocence.
The Middle East? No, I’m talking about the ongoing debate between bloggers and journalists on one side and public relations folks on the other.
Most bloggers (and many journalists) seem to assume that the only thing a PR does all day is dream […]
What a schmozzle.
The recent uproar after the firing of an employee over her decision to give a free bite-sized snack to the young child of a customer lead the Tim Horton’s chain to unfire her.
The optics of firing a single mother for an act of kindness put the fast food chain in a bind.
Is […]
Customers of VOIP phone services are supposed to alert their service provider if they move, so the instructions can be changed for emergency services responding to a 911 call.
But that doesn’t mean the company is off the hook. A family in Calgary lost their 18-month-old son after ambulance crews were dispatched to an old […]
Lawyers are often very good at helping organizations achieve their goals. But when it comes to plotting effective public relations moves, they too often forget how that legal action can be seen as aggressive overkill to the average person.
Case in point, the chill effect attempted by lawyer Clifford Shoemaker on behalf of his clients, who […]
A student of public relations can see a belligerent pattern in the Chinese government’s reputation defence during the past year.
Accusation: producing unsafe productsDefence: blame sloppy manufacturing specs provided by clients.
Accusation: human rights abuses in TibetDefence: allege Dalai Lama’s of conspiracy to cause deaths of ethnic Chinese
Tactic: Olympic Torch Relay protestsDefence: glorify noble athletes standing […]
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Written by Eric Eggertson [email] for b5media.
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