I am so pleased for my great friend and client Tony Kaye – who has won a Grammy for best short form video for his promo for Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”. It features a huge array of famous faces lipsyncing to the track from the American V album (produced by Rick Rubin)…
Al Jazeera is the largest and most controversial Arabic News Channel in the Middle East, offering news coverage 24 hours a day from around the world. Mark contributes to its round up of 2007 on Al Jazeera’s media show “The Listening Post” Madelaine McCann Harry Potter
Never mind Nick Davies’s suggestion that overworked ‘churnalists’ are being hoodwinked by PRs, Mark Borkowski says flaks and hacks are both struggling to cope with the news cycle. So the media world is flipping over and over like a gigantic overdone pancake because of the ethical fix caused by publication of Nick Davies’ book Flat…
It doesn’t require a journey to Hollywood to notice the effects of the Oscar campaign, that great PR institution that rules the fortunes of the movie world. The Oscars were created as a way of promoting the movies, but they have become, in the hands of Henry Rogers, Warren Cowan and the endless array of…
This is from CMU Daily, a daily email round-up and one of my favourite sources of info – this nib exposes PR at its worst with journalism as it should be… great stuff PLAY.COM ENTER THE DOWNLOAD MARKET Etailer Play.com yesterday announced it was launching a new UK download platform that will make music available…
As the Chalford Donkey disappears off the media agenda let’s not forget the other animals that ignited a newspaper firestorm .. The lion of Kabul, Phoenix the calf, The Tamworth Two, Blackie the donkey ,Dolly the sheep – where are they all now?
After a particularly difficult weekend helping out a poor innocent who was the subject of some unpleasant attention from a Sunday newspaper, a note arrived in my inbox from a pal who had heard about the dilemma. “Take a look at this to see how the weasel words and lies of a news desk are treated…
Times A £200 million national film centre. A permanent home for fashion shows in London. Funding for avant-garde film projects. A Davos-style arts and finance conference. These are among a range of commitments to the arts being set out by the Government next week. Mark Borkowski, who works in public relations for arts and media…
Media meltdowns never fail to astound me; the Archbishop of Canterbury’s PR faux pas last week is probably one of the biggest slip ups – it’s high on a list of cock ups alongside Pope Benedict XVI’s Islam blunder, Prescott’s Green Pledge, Stephen Byers getting his times-tables wrong, John Selwyn Gummer feeding his daughter a beef burger,…
The media circus moved out of my village on Sunday. Without doubt the best take on the surreal turn of events came from Cole Moreton. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/chalfords-donkey-derby-780514.html The aftermath seems to have divided the community; some suggest that it’s painted the village as full of eccentric geriatric freaks who can’t clamber up the hill, others have…