�This Morning� this morning. Invited on to �This Morning� with the smart n savvy Lorraine Kelly and Philip Schofield. �All Human Life Is There� the News of the World used to emblazon across its masthead. Well, Rupert Murdoch�s editors may have lowered their sights, but not the ITV pantechnicon that is This Morning. There�s more…
‘This Morning’ this morning.
‘This Morning’ this morning. Invited on to ‘This Morning’ with the smart n savvy Lorraine Kelly and Philip Schofield. ‘All Human Life Is There’ the News of the World used to emblazon across its masthead. Well, Rupert Murdoch’s editors may have lowered their sights, but not the ITV pantechnicon that is This Morning. There’s more…
NOT ENOUGH COOKS
A pleasure to meet up with Robin Cook MP, the distinguished member for Livingston, former Foreign Secretary, and notorious racing enthusiast. The occasion was the Oldie Literary lunch in Edinburgh yesterday, which I was hosting on behalf of our clients Swan Hellenic. Other guests included the travel writer Charlie Connelly, author of ‘Attention All Shipping’….
PLAY THE GAME, LADS, AND LET’S TALK.
So then, after our completely predictable exit from Euro 2004 during the summer, England’s footballers are now trying to qualify for the World Cup in 2006, and what hard work they’re making of it. They didn’t play too badly against Poland and won the match 2 – 1, but then decided, in an act of…
Return of the Governor and defence of the soundbite
Go back a few weeks. The polls said the nation suspected the Prime Minister of having deceived its representatives in the House of Commons. The polls said we believed he had deliberately misled us over Iraqi munitions to get some urgency into ‘our’ support for George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern expedition, and get the sacking…
Borkowski at Guardian seminar on music file-sharing
“The MusicAlly debate: PR and P2P – the perfect anti-piracy pitch” on Monday September 13, 2004 from 6.00pm at the Guardian Newsroom, London, EC1. Sponsored by the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and the Observer, the panel discussion will hear three top advertising, PR and marketing executives – Tim Duffy, the head of M&C Saatchi, Interbrand boss…
Anthea Turner
I feel a touch of tabloid fatigue coming on. The symptoms include sighing deeply and muttering ‘Oh come ON!’ repeatedly. It’s a familiar end-of-silly-season complaint and generally only lasts a morning or two. The Daily Mirror is responsible for my current attack. This paper has a reputation for NOT exactly being a founder-member of the…
Do journalists necessarily make good PR's?
The Media Column: ‘Journalists are always among those most ready to sneer at PR’ by Bill Hagerty ‘Mark Borkowski, who runs the PR company of the same name and has recently been presenting Son of Barnum, a one-man show on publicity and publicists, is not convinced that good journalists necessarily make good PRs.’ http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=554501
MARK BORKOWSKI – SON OF BARNUM EDINBURGH – INDEPENDENT REVIEW:
Mark Borkowski: Son of Barnum Assembly Rooms EDINBURGH – INDEPENDENT REVIEW: This canter through the history and application of publicity stunts is more a lecture and slide-show than a one-man show and anyone considering getting up in time to catch Son of Barnum should definitely bring a notebook. From his own career, Borkowski picks out…
Fuming over ban
Fuming over ban THE Fringe�s reputation for cutting-edge performance art is being jeopardised by the council�s “hysterical” attitude to health and safety, it was claimed today. Performer Mark Borkowski launched a scathing attack on city officials after being refused permission to use a chainsaw in his act at the council-owned Assembly Rooms. http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=951392004