Mike Maney

I’ve worked with some of the top PR people in the business. People who lead communications functions for multibillion dollar global corporations. The reason they are at the top of the profession is because they have class. Which brings me to Ronn Torossian, leader of the high-flying pitch palace, 5W. By all accounts, his agency’s […]

I’ve worked with some of the top PR people in the business. People who lead communications functions for multibillion dollar global corporations. The reason they are at the top of the profession is because they have class. Which brings me to Ronn Torossian, leader of the high-flying pitch palace, 5W. By all accounts, his agency’s […]

Without saying so directly, David Bianculli, a TV critic at New York’s The Daily News, adds to the spiraling shrinkage in credibility of network news. Bianculli armchair quarterback’s the decision by ABC to have World News Tonight news anchor David Woodruff report live from Iraq (Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, were seriously injured by […]

There have been so many corporate scandals over the past couple of years that it’s hard to keep up with all of them. One that continues to make headlines is the case against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, who was acquitted last year of his involvement in a $2.7 billion accounting fraud. Today, word is […]

The good folks over at Slashdot are running a post on a Wall Street Journal story that highlights a push for more sharing of data in the development of pharamceuticals. Not that my site stats back me up, but this is the second time in about a month that posts on this blog have preceded […]

The Media Guerilla, Mike Manuel from Voce Communications, expands on Shel Israel’s advice for early-stage startups that are considering hiring a PR firm. It’s a post worth a read, as it speaks more to the changing nature of communications than it does to decisions facing startups.

Renuka Rayasam at the Austin-American Statesman is reporting today that Whole Foods Market is switching to all wind power in the U.S.. I don’t know enough about the economics of the wind-powered energy industry to determine the economic benefits of Whole Foods’ decision, but my 14 years of PR experience tell me that this is […]

Tim gave me the heads up on this story out of Rancho Cucamonga about a man who broke into a neighbor’s house because he mistakenly thought it was his in a heavily inebriated state. Let’s just say the results didn’t turn out to good for him.

Tim and The ‘Mudge can provide much deeper insight on the topic of baseball than I ever can. However, for some odd reason, I am hooked on the discussions about the banning of Pete Rose from ever entering the Hall of Fame. For those of you like me who know little about the history or […]

For anyone as hooked as the missus and I are on the ABC hit “Lost”, this report from the UK’s The Independent either solves a bunch of the show’s riddles or adds to confusion. If you aren’t watching the show, pick up the first season’s DVD and catch up. It’s, perhaps, one of the most […]