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 […]
Talk about having your symbolism hijacked. The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee have seen the usual positive tenor of the international torch relay degenerate into a platform for political protests over human rights.
The challenge now is to pretend that the torch is being peacefully passed from hand-to-hand with the world looking on […]
After my send-up of the dangers of Earth Hour last week, I got pinged about an excellent critique of the world-wide event.
The source - a high school in Australia - was a bit unexpected, but the quality of commentary is excellent. Here’s a quote from Greenwashing - Raising Awareness or Breeding Complacency?, by Jimmy […]
You would think George Bush’s massive failure to communicate himself out of the Iraq invasion quagmire would serve as a lesson for other major powers.
The Chinese spin on the Tibetan protests are clear and consistent: the Dalai Lama is a lying, scheming radical fomenting rebellion in an otherwise peaceful part of China.
In an almost unprecedented […]
Journalists often give their interview subjects the benefit of the doubt when they slip up.
That wasn’t the case this week when Barack Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power stepped down from her unpaid position after being quoted as calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an interview with a reporter from Scotland’s The Scotsman newspaper. She […]
There are times when the public is willing to forgive the indiscretions of public figures. This ain’t one of them.
The problem Eliot Spitzer faces is of his own making. The hardball approach to wrongdoers that made his career now prevents him from successfully playing the contrition card.
As Conrad Black has learned (or maybe he […]
In denying that Digg isn’t in the middle of a bidding war by Microsoft and Google, Digg CEO Jay Adelson doesn’t actually say the recommendation site isn’t in negotiations for sale.
As Matthew Ingram notes, the specific denial is that there isn’t a bidding war between those two companies. All other possibilities remain undenied.
If the […]
Template for candidate messages in a primary:
“(Insert any old accomplishment) is a sign we are on the course to victory. Any candidate who (repeat any old accomplishment) is certain to be the next president.”
Let’s all forget about those other states that would have been really good to win for the Clinton campaign. As […]
The media is obsessed with bad news. Given the chance, they will take the worst possible angle on a story and play it up.
Just ignore the average sports story, the average business story, the average lifestyles story and the average local story.
And don’t pay attention to the coverage of official events, announcements, and anniversaries. […]
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Written by Eric Eggertson [email] for b5media.
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