I took part in a debate at the University of Westminster last night alongside that wily old fox Max Clifford (the second time I’ve shared a stage with him – it always makes for an interesting experience) and others, discussing Celebrity Brands: Desire, Dollars and Danger? It was a rather curious and disappointing night; most…
It seems, of late, that sleaze is a gift worth giving and that it’s for life, not just for Christmas or for politicians. The latest example – the News of the World phone tapping scandal – is, in Variety’s slanguage, a “dramedy”. It has the potential for seriously succulent consequences, which might be deeply costly…
Ten things I hate about you… Every journalist has a gripe about dealing with PR people – but what irritates the gatekeepers? Genevieve Roberts and Ian Burrell hear their tales from the ‘moral low ground’ http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article356795.ece
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