How does an organization maintain its credibility when this happens? The world of professional soccer has been turned upside down with the indictments of vice presidents and executive committee members for graft. The president, Sepp Blatter, has been left untouched, but the charges stop at the door to his office. It is clear that FIFA […]
Posted on May 28th, 2015 by admin
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The pope’s pronouncements on the environment and the poor are not sitting well with Republican Catholics. Once upon a time — a few hundred years ago — this might have put the pontiff in a political bind, but no longer. Popes today have the ability to speak their minds concerning moral issues. The present Holy […]
Posted on May 27th, 2015 by admin
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Japan is joining war games being held by the US and Australia. The move is significant since Japan has long forsworn the military. The move also is PR targeted toward China and its ambitions in the South China sea. There is no doubt that China is expansionist, and it is willing to use military action to […]
Posted on May 26th, 2015 by admin
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This is PR for an ongoing,culture change. Some day, not far into the future, a car will drive itself. The public is not ready for it — yet. They need to be by time the first robotic cars reach dealerships. Major automakers are edging into the technology by providing elements of self-driving without offering the whole package. […]
Posted on May 22nd, 2015 by admin
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Apparently the police warned the manager of a Waco, TX restaurant about having rival motorcycle gangs on the premises. The ensuing rumble left nine dead and a state of chaos the police had to break up. Now, 170 bikers are charged with capital murder and the restaurant is shut for the time being. One wonders […]
Posted on May 19th, 2015 by admin
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Leave it to political campaigns to turn fact checking into a weapon. And when the fact checking doesn’t go their way, they make up facts to use in TV advertising. Political campaigners are often people who believe the end justifies the means. That politicians go along with them says something about the moral rectitude of […]
Posted on May 15th, 2015 by admin
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It is harder now for a reporter to get away with a biased interview. Consider this. Bloomberg’s political editor, Mark Halperin, went too far in trying to test presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, on his Hispanic background. The internet erupted in outrage over the questions Halperin was asking. Halperin, for his part, is left with a […]
Posted on May 12th, 2015 by admin
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A total of 187 Asian scholars are calling on Japan to admit its wartime atrocities against neighbors and allied countries. Their PR effort, done by open letter to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has not yet succeeded. Abe is resistant to apologizing for crimes such as putting Korean women into prostitution to serve its soldiers. Nations, […]
Posted on May 8th, 2015 by admin
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There is nothing one can do in PR or marketing to save a business that the public no longer needs. Consider, for example, the one-hour photo processing industry. There are just 190 stores left in the US, and one wonders how they hang on. Business is Darwinian. With the demise of film, so too came […]
Posted on May 7th, 2015 by admin
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A first step in political campaigning today is to secure your web site names. That is why this mistake by a former high-tech CEO is a howler. It comes under, “What was Carly thinking?” She is running for President on her business experience, but she failed in a basic requirement. That opens her to mockery […]
Posted on May 6th, 2015 by admin
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