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Castaways see survival in a fiery Scots loner.

From th Scotsman. PR expert Mark Borkowski said he believed the public appetite for such shows had not been sated.  “The freak show was common in Barnum’s time and circuses were popular in the Coliseum,” he said. “This format has got the mixture of circus freak show, public humiliation and curiosity. As long as they…

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MOSES SUPPOSES

The Borkowski poet in residence on the crisis engulfing broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4 and Channel Five over premium-rate interactive services. Moses supposes his toeses are roses and that no TV phone in’s been fixed but Moses supposes erroneously; his chance of winning’s been nixed. Moses suggests that footballs are breasts, that if he says…

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Spanner throwing and Obama

Barack Obama’s presidential nomination campaign looked like it was steaming ahead perhaps a bit too smoothly. The headlines this weekend, “Obama ancestors owned slaves, a researcher found” http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/04/obama_  suggest that some dark force had a reason to throw a spanner in the bandwagon. Pals of mine in the U.S. had suggested Obama would be an…

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Valencia – Inter FIGHT a proper PR crisis

A full on PR meltdown, somebody with extraordinary image management should be employed to try and turn around the mess Italian football finds itself in, the scenes after last night’s brawl further exasperates the issues. Watch the scenes at last night’s game between Inter and Valencia. This clip shows the fighting that broke out after…