Good to see the Royal Princes out in public this week, even though the occasion was a sad one: their granny’s funeral. I’m reminded of the ancient Chinese fable in which a young and foolish man goes to an older, wiser one to ask for the secret of perfect happiness. “Easy.” says the sage. “Grandfather…
From the Daily Mirror. A fairly obvious publicity stunt to get the geeks talking about Big Brother. An off-air cock-up is always a surefire hit to attract a bit of publicity. NET BOOB REVEALS WHAT BB BOSSES THINK Jun 7 2004 Exclusive By Andy Rudd BIG Brother bosses became stars of their own show yesterday…
Politics is often described as showbusiness for ugly people. Few politicians can resist the lure of the flashbulb – or the opportunity to bask in a little reflected showbiz glamour. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3746865.stm
The US military’s attempt to hide the returning corpses of US soldiers from the media has backfired spectacularly, writes Mark Borkowski, and it might just cost Bush the election The US military’s PR men can usually be relied upon to elide uncomfortable facts with a good euphemism, but mutilated, putrefying corpses returning to American soil…
David Beckham today hit out at the media following a series of lurid claims about his private life, condemning coverage in the Daily Mail and the News of the World as an “absolute disgrace” and admitting he had considered boycotting certain media organisations. This underlines a couple of crucial issues. (1) The pressure is ON…
Enjoying a front row seat at Wednesday’s main feature, Attack of the Purple Condoms (cert.18, dir. Roger Corman), must have been a genuinely horrifying experience for our honourable representatives in the House of Commons. The Daily Mirror’s Paul Routledge described the scene in detail, referring to the perpetrator throughout as a ‘nutter’ and declining to…
I’m sure my powers of prophesy should be applied to more profitable ventures. A few weeks ago I suggested, to anybody prepared to listen, that after the Loos Affair had melted back into the night and the heat had died down, we’d see some extraordinary PR strokes from the Beckham camp as they redefined and…
T-shirts equipped with ‘I, Robot’ trailer Coming soon to a T-shirt near you: trailers for “I, Robot,” starring Will Smith. In the never-ending search to capture the attention of consumers bombarded by commercials, billboards and a massive array of other advertisements, 20th Century Fox debuted an innovative new guerilla marketing tactic at E3 last week…
I’ve just come across a blogger called Loic Le Meur who feels that media companies need to adapt in the new world of journalism Traditional press releases are going to die soon. Journalists get hundreds of them everyday by fax and email( DOOH). This is one of the reasons why we (companies) pay PR agencies…
So Piers steps down. Has anybody noticed that, through all the scandals hitting the headlines during and after the Iraq war, the only resignations have come from the media world? Dyke…Gilligan…Davis….and now Morgan. We’ve yet to see a single Government goon take the pearl-handled revolver. Food for thought?