I am informed by David Brain’s blog that PR Week have published their PowerBook, Evidently I am on a list of folk that have declared some strange peccadilloes. David’s blog http://www.sixtysecondview.com has more information, when I can find the time to read the thing I will offer my point of view.
The food industry is an ingenious beast when it comes to persuading consumers to swallow information about the benefits of their foods. It’s a long-term investment for them to manufacture attitudes towards their product and they’ll go to any length to plug it, covertly or openly. Usually, stealth is the favoured action. There’s a story…
I need to send out a big thank you to the team from Borkowski who handled the PS3 launch at Virgin Megastores so brilliantly. The team turned up at Oxford Street on Wednesday at 11am to get things underway and worked through to midnight, then turned up on Thursday morning at 5.30am and worked right…
Today’s news was dominated by two stories. The first to be served up was a survey on how our busy lives are leading us to be able to cook only four different meals in our lifetime. Lack of time and long working hours mean we don’t learn how to cook different dishes and plump for…
I notice that David Brain, President and CEO, Edelman Europe has passed comment on his blog about who he would prefer to be the talking head for the PR industry. “No disrespect to Mark Borkowski or Max Clifford, but I’m so much more comfortable having the industry represented by a character who is as good…
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…
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…
John Stauber, is the founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, which sponsors PR Watch, he is one person I have huge amount of respect for. I have always taken note of his outpourings which are usually very insightful. Stauber has been around the block, since the 1960s. He has worked with public interest,…
I was sent this sad and brilliant story from the Reuters bureau in Boogata which provoked deliberation. I have worked in the entertainment industry for many years and my mantra’s has always been, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity!” Sometimes I have a tough time defending that “All publicity is good publicity” as an…
Well trained media spokespeople are now the norm, habituating every nook and cranny in most news programmes. If there is an issue that an editor wants to focus on, then hey presto, the PR handlers offer up a genetically modified human, built in a workshop, to face the foe. These well trained “greys” are regularly…