The most gaffe-prone European leader of modern times, 71-year-old media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, starts his third term as Italy’s prime minister today. Despite Italy facing deep economic and social problems, being a country close to recession with consumer buying power falling and unemployment rising, the man is back to pilot the ship of state. Somehow…
What an awful ordeal Rob Napier must be going through, having left his 17th Century violin, worth nearly $400.000, on a Great Western Train. Left on the luggage rack, the prized instrument, made by the master Venetian craftsmen Matteo Goffriller, has not been seen since it went missing in January, despite Napier calling the train…
In –house PR folk are caught declaring only ‘muppets’ would ditch O2 for 3 From the Register Read on ….
Experts: Mosley must go quiet over orgy claims LONDON, England (CNN) — Motor sport boss Max Mosley needs a period of “dignified silence” before finding friends willing to help rebuild his image after claims about his role in a sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes, according to media experts By Glen Scanlon For CNN Mark Borkowski,…
Yes – Mark Borkowski, Media commentator and publicist Can a personality survive the sort of scandal enveloping the beleaguered FIA president, Max Mosley? Of course, but it all depends on their attitude to how the media are reporting the story. It is an unenviable situation of deep personal pain. At least Max can afford good…
China’s Olympic PR nightmare April 07th, 2008 | Category: Mark My Words After a week in the depths of the French countryside without access to the internet, I returned yesterday to the utter madness of the Olympic torch relay procession through London. How could this blatant PR stunt for the Chinese government have been allowed…
The opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow has been a complete PR meltdown! So far, 70 flights have been cancelled and irate travelers spitting blood are wandering the concourse trying to reclaim luggage. I hear its going to get worse with more cancellations expected over the weekend. What a PR disaster especially when the media…
My attention has been drawn to Lost in the Showbiz a website set up to celebrate the weight of witless, achingly silly PR guff. The site declares that it yearns to share all the inane crap it receives with the world. Gawd, I feel my age! The explosion of airhead PRs, who make Eddy Monsoon…
There’s been much talk about a website that has created a game called Miss Bimbo where children as young as nine years old are invited to become the most famous, beautiful, sought after bimbo across the globe. It’s certainly got most of the broadsheets and blogs here frothing at the mouth in their attack on…
It’s a very unhappy fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. I thought it was a good moment to return to the BBC3 documentary entitled Iraq: How the War was Spun. My contribution to the programme was an investigation of the role of PR in promoting the Gulf war, and in controlling our perceptions of the…