President Trump is proving to be a stubborn candidate for re-election. Rather than listening to the public at large as any good practitioner of PR would do, he is cementing himself with a minority in the Republican party. This is a small group that trumpets “white power.” Trump has admitted already that he might lose […]
Posted on June 29th, 2020 by admin
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There are many things that are detestable about the Trump administration, but this isn’t one of them. The Treasury Department has no way of knowing who has died within the year and who hasn’t. I write this as an executor of an estate belonging to a friend who died in 2019. We received a check […]
Posted on June 27th, 2020 by admin
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Internet giants have worked strenuously to avoid being regulated as utilities. Their argument is that utilities provide essential human services such as electricity, water, sewer. There is no equivalency on the internet. I beg to differ. We lost our internet for a day and a half and it shut down remote work, email, research, shopping, […]
Posted on June 25th, 2020 by admin
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PR is what you do first and foremost. Words come later when there is little chance of accusing one of hypocrisy. That is why this is a cautionary tale. The Roman Catholic Church for centuries stood on the side of freedom in its words. It was less so in its actions. Church institutions kept slaves […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2020 by admin
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What kind of PR is needed for the public that is starting to deny the pandemic? The World Health Organization is documenting a rise in cases yet in the US and elsewhere people are refusing to wear masks and have stopped social distancing. They are tired of the disease and fatalistic. “If I get it, I’ll […]
Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by admin
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Quaker Oats the parent company of the Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix has announced it will change the name and image of the brand. The question that should be asked is what took so long? The brand was modeled after a racial characterization of 131 years ago. Aunt Jemima was a roly-poly […]
Posted on June 18th, 2020 by admin
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This is a load of assumptions, algorithms and opinions dolled up in scientific formulae. It is speculation with little to back it up. Hence the number of exoplanets with intelligent life could be 36 or more or less or none. We simply don’t know at this point in human history whether or where there might […]
Posted on June 18th, 2020 by admin
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“Buildings matter.” “Arts and culture matter.” “All lives matter.” These and similar obtuse riffs on “Black Lives Matter” have cost people their reputations and jobs. They failed to understand that the nation’s raw emotions over the unjust deaths of black men and women did not allow for me-too variations. It was an error of insensitivity […]
Posted on June 15th, 2020 by admin
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Jeff Bezos has said he is happy to lose customers who criticize Amazon for supporting Black Lives Matter. He said their position is racist and he doesn’t want his company to have anything to do with them. This is positive PR for Amazon, which is still suffering from negative comments over how it has handled […]
Posted on June 11th, 2020 by admin
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IBM announced it is getting out of the business of facial recognition technology It is a smart move and smart PR. Facial recognition software is not perfect and has both gender and race biases built. That was part of IBM’s concern but the remainder was the corporation doesn’t want to enable increased surveillance of the […]
Posted on June 10th, 2020 by admin
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