Great quote in the Guardian today from Bill Drummond, the ex-KLF prankster. In a feature about his soup tour of the Britain, don’t ask. just click on this link http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1220512,00.html. He claims he frets about doing any PR, ‘I’m careful now about how I interact with the media.’ Great sound bite I suspect has been…
I notice from a diary item in the Express today that Macdonald / Rutter are no longer representing Michael Moore. I think we should all compare notes? Mr Moore is a fantastic film maker but it comes with a price
Hot off the wires from the Canadian �National Post�… �In the days before Cannes, Michael Moore’s Disney criticism whipped festival audiences into a fever for Fahrenheit 9/11. Hollywood cynics called it the usual P.T. Barnum showmanship by Moore, but when the movie finally unspooled, it earned resounding applause at Monday’s press screenings.� Barnum � excellent….
It’s funny how interesting this seems two years on….. Saudis spin like a well-oiled machine By Roger Franklin June 23 2002 Even among his rivals in the PR business Washington spinmeister Michael Petruzzello incites mixed emotions. For some, those whose outfits foundered in the wake of the dot-com bomb and September 11th, it’s a simple…
NICHOLAS BERG R.I.P. Stomach-churning, hideous images are the stock-in-trade of the Al Quaeda publicity department. Their cuttings library grows daily. To describe the destruction of four airliners and the World Trade Centre as the world’s blackest-ever PR stunt is not to intend disrespect to its innocent victims; rather it’s to acknowledge that Bin Laden and…
Odd how quiet it seems at The Sun this week. Think about it. Surely in the middle of this furore about Piers Morgan’s dodgy atrocitigraphs, and with the Express positively frothing at the mouth, you’d think Sun-readers would be being keenly browbeaten to do something or think something. But no. A gentle hush has descended….
Lou Grant was an iconic TV show in the late 1970s starring Ed Asner as the eponymous newspaperman extraordinaire. The fictional L.A. Tribune he worked for employed a typical cast of clich�d characters including the Bright Young Reporter Joe Rossi, the septuagenarian female proprietor Mrs Pynchon (echoing Kay Graham who owned Newsweek and The Washington…
I picked this up yesterday, it�s a report that suggests that the images of graphic brutality to Iraqi captives were produced by a porn site The conspiracy theorists are being fuelled I suggest by some shadow department in the Pentagon�s spin machine who may be trying to deflect some heat. The published report says the…
When crisis looms, go on the attack. This is exactly what the PR aides did to counter the publication of the shocking pictures printed in the Daily Mirror of British troops apparently urinating on Iraqi prisoners in custody. The Army’s heaviest hitter, Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Jackson, was quickly wheeled out…
For decades Saddam Hussein’s infamous Abu Ghraib dungeon was the scene of terrible cruelty against innocent Iraqi captives. Now the US forces are in charge and it’s business as usual as the torture continues. Images of cruelty against the detainees surfaced last night and were broadcast on ABC’s ‘60 minutes’ programme. The shots showing Iraqis…