As I envisaged, in my blog and on the Jeremy Vine Show, it wouldn’t be long before the former Mrs McCartney would be heading to the U.S. I predicted that Heather would soon be on a PR drive in the land that loves her. Well it took just 52 hours before we were told that…
“I’m so glad it’s over,” an emotional Mills told reporters. “It was an incredible result in the end to secure mine and Beatrice’s future and all the charities I plan on helping.” So it’s over; Heather Mills has got £24.3m in the divorce settlement today. Not bad, £6m for every year they were together. I…
I have just seen the most wonderful description for a modern film PR in a comment feature in Variety. WANTED: Top flack for the film industry. Ideal candidate will maintain inexhaustible ability to spin, wheedle and cajole. Must have strong parenting skills; magician’s training preferred. We offer plenty of responsibility, little power or support and great…
I was at the Millennium Dome last night at the first MediaGuardian Awards for Innovation, or Megas, as some funky Guardian person has christened them. The night kicked off with a performance by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius pip “Thou Shalt always Kill” . I think they are better on Youtube The awards, launched to…
Who would be a Royal Prince? I have been hounded this weekend by various media organizations wanting my comments on the furor surrounding Prince Harry’s tour of duty in Afghanistan. We know how important Harry is to the national media – putting him on the front page certainly sells newspapers but the majority of callers…
Great invite in my inbox from Trevor Morris DEBATE! Wednesday 9th April, 6.30pm, Old Cinema, University of Westminster Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW University of Westminster in conjunction with the Media Standards Trust) The motion: The growth of PR is threatening the integrity of the press For: Nick Davies, journalist and author…
Hollywood has had publicists as long as it’s had movies. But getting audience bums on seats to see an ageing Sly Stallone is evidence of creative genius writes Mark Borkowski The old silent movie publicist and space grabber, Maynard Nottage, oncewrote that it is essential to think about the after effects of a photo opportunity….
Poor MOD PR folk what do you do? Alas the news has broken that Prince Harry has been doing his duty for this Grandmother and shooting at the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan. A huge pat on the back – the young man is certainly courageous. Supposedly, Matt Drudge has broken the media blackout. The head…
Never mind Nick Davies’s suggestion that overworked ‘churnalists’ are being hoodwinked by PRs, Mark Borkowski says flaks and hacks are both struggling to cope with the news cycle. So the media world is flipping over and over like a gigantic overdone pancake because of the ethical fix caused by publication of Nick Davies’ book Flat…
Media meltdowns never fail to astound me; the Archbishop of Canterbury’s PR faux pas last week is probably one of the biggest slip ups – it’s high on a list of cock ups alongside Pope Benedict XVI’s Islam blunder, Prescott’s Green Pledge, Stephen Byers getting his times-tables wrong, John Selwyn Gummer feeding his daughter a beef burger,…