GIBSON’S lesson for PRs on how not to score own goals Telegraph.co.uk – London,England,UK … Mark Borkowski, another celebrity publicist, says the horsetrading tends to be more common in City, showbusiness, politics and features, where the journalists … www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/05/nmed05.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/05/ixhome.html
There’s no such thing as bad publicity AIDAN SMITH T WAS another go-on-impress-me day on the Festival desk of the Edinburgh Evening News and, really, for a hack of such tender years, I was carrying far too much cynicism in the pockets of my copy of a Paul Smith pinstriped double-breaster. These were the 1980s…
CIA’S FAVORITE PR FIRM, RENDON GROUP, ROCKS THE DNC http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0726rendon.htm The CIA’s favorite PR firm, “the Rendon Group is playing a major behind-the-scenes role at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, arranging first-time/real-time video broadcasts each morning to each of the 56 caucuses, serving as the event’s project manager, and coordinating 20 convention-related events, Rick…
The Silly Season has arrived. It’s official. Max Clifford spinning for the UK Independence Party and its new MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk… the Women’s Institute creating a piece of music to played on Tupperware as part of the Aldeburgh festival…no doubt about it: the unmistakable signs of the start of the silly season.
From this week’s spinwatch. I love to know how the big PR consultancies make a buck. http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0512bksh.htm “BKSH & Assocs., Burson-Marsteller’s lobbying wing, is representing Radio Sedaye Iran (Radio Voice of Iran), the Beverly Hills-based network that advocates regime change in Iran,” reports O’Dwyers. Former BKSH clients include Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress….
Great quote in the Guardian today from Bill Drummond, the ex-KLF prankster. In a feature about his soup tour of the Britain, don’t ask. just click on this link http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1220512,00.html. He claims he frets about doing any PR, ‘I’m careful now about how I interact with the media.’ Great sound bite I suspect has been…
I notice from a diary item in the Express today that Macdonald / Rutter are no longer representing Michael Moore. I think we should all compare notes? Mr Moore is a fantastic film maker but it comes with a price
I’ve just come across a blogger called Loic Le Meur who feels that media companies need to adapt in the new world of journalism Traditional press releases are going to die soon. Journalists get hundreds of them everyday by fax and email( DOOH). This is one of the reasons why we (companies) pay PR agencies…
It’s funny how interesting this seems two years on….. Saudis spin like a well-oiled machine By Roger Franklin June 23 2002 Even among his rivals in the PR business Washington spinmeister Michael Petruzzello incites mixed emotions. For some, those whose outfits foundered in the wake of the dot-com bomb and September 11th, it’s a simple…
It was a last ditch PR ploy, but Rumsfeld’s testimony may not save his job. The man squirmed on the spot as he faced difficult questions from the press corps. Gone was the swagger that framed his briefings at the height of ‘Shock and Awe’. Now called Torture-gate, the credibility of the US is below…