1900’s – John D. Rockefeller regularly gave away silver dimes in front of reporters. It instantly caught the imagination of anyone who saw the image in the mass media, turning an alien faceless money-monger into a friendly old man giving a child a dime. Image is everything… 2007 – “The billionaire entrepreneur and serial self-publicist…
In 2002, eight cheezy PRs, including myself, were gathered together by PR Week to decide on the top 20 consumer PR campaigns in the history of publicity campaigns. One publicity stunt that shone out was Live Aid, 1984 which was an iconic event to raise awareness and money for starving Africans. It united the world…
An extract from Bob Burton’s Inside Spin: The dark underbelly of the PR industry. Brian Page, a 42-year-old railway worker, had been busy before Easter 1992 buying furniture for a house he had just moved into at Mt Pritchard, a south-western Sydney suburb. On their way home, his daughter Melissa wanted to stop at McDonald’s…
Michael Tchong has written an interesting paper on his site Darwin on Steroids: his claim is that while 75% of Americans object to steroid use, Marion Jones is part of evolution SAN FRANCISCO — 08-Oct-07 — Marion Jones is capturing headlines with an alleged admittance that she used steroids. A Friday poll of Facebook members…
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The media vultures are circling high above the rotting carcass that is Britney Spears’ much-vaunted “career”. Her public image has been mashed and trashed by a concurrent series of disasters that has resulted in the family courts ripping her children from her bosom and placing them in the care of her trailer trash ex mate…
How boy David downed mighty Goliath Gordon. – Cameron accused Brown of indecision and weakness, saying he had put the Labour Party’s interests before those of voters. – Brown Falls Behind in Polls as He Rules Out Election Game to Cameron. Cameron leads one game to love in the first set. RAIN STOPS PLAY
The Guardian puts Labour and the Tories on 38 per cent, an eight-point drop for Mr Brown’s party, and a six-point rise for Conservatives. The surge follows Mr Cameron’s unscripted conference speech at the annual party conference in Blackpool 40 – 15
It was a sad day when the TV world lost Ronnie Hazlehurst, who died in Guernsey on Monday 1st October. Ronnie Hazlehurst, the composer behind some of the television’s best loved theme tunes – from Blankety Blank to Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em – has died at the age of 79. The former BBC musical director…