This story is an example of how not to conduct media relations. In an escalating war of words, a spokesperson for Mrs. Clinton told a reporter to “Fuck off.” The media can be maddening. I can name individuals who cause me to shudder each time they call and whose relentless questioning is more than […]
Posted on September 27th, 2012 by admin
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Posted on September 26th, 2012 by admin
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This story supports the American principle of separation of Church and State. Can you imagine the outcry in the US if a local, state or the Federal government collected a tax for a religion? As it is, German bishops appear greedy and unprincipled for insisting that Catholics pay their annual Church tax. However, it […]
Posted on September 25th, 2012 by admin
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When your workers riot, they are trying to tell you something and chances are you haven’t been listening. That should be the starting point for Foxconn in China where it just shut a factory because 2000 of its workers engaged in a melee. It shouldn’t have come to this if management were listening closely to workers’ […]
Posted on September 24th, 2012 by admin
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Like any professional industry, social media discussions can become unnecessarily “confrontational.” The air quotes are to emphasize this confrontation isn’t heated by any means. It’s usually a keyboard-based back and forth that starts when someone makes a point and someone else splits hairs to create a counterpoint. That’s what happened in the latest Ad Age […]
Posted on September 22nd, 2012 by admin
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This experiment is a warning to anyone who runs surveys of public opinion. It is possible consciously or not to change minds through how a survey is conducted. This is not a new finding. Politicians have used “push polls” for years as a way to change voters’ minds. But, the experiment shows that in matters […]
Posted on September 21st, 2012 by admin
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So the heir-apparent to China’s leadership is back in the public eye after a two-week, unexplained absence. The state’s failure to say why Xi Jinping was gone touched off enormous speculation and fears about the political situation in China. Apparently, the worries were needless, but who knew? Authorities weren’t speaking and the opaque nature of the communist bureaucracy allows […]
Posted on September 20th, 2012 by admin
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Mitt Romney has learned a hard lesson of modern politics. Watch what you say at all times — especially among friends. There is no telling who will turn on you and expose your thoughts to the public. It that smacks of paranoia, the disarray in the Romney camp today is proof that it isn’t. From […]
Posted on September 19th, 2012 by admin
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Roomba has a neat way of publicizing its 10th anniversary. (Pun intended.) The robo-vacuum cleaner company has illustrated the dimensions of dirt that its machines have sucked up as well as miles driven, all without intervention of a harried householder. One can learn a lesson or two from the way the company has gone about […]
Posted on September 18th, 2012 by admin
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There is a category of marketers for whom public relations is of no consequence. These are telemarketers who disrupt dinner hours, male potency pitchers on the internet, spammers for low mortgage rates and more, much more. They pay little or no attention to regulations. They don’t care if they anger 99.9 percent of the population. […]
Posted on September 17th, 2012 by admin
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