Ron Torossian responds somewhat quickly to yesterday's gaff-pearance in Gawker. Rather than take the opportunity to explain the rationale behind his crass marching orders to his staff, Torossian instead responds with his own personal celebrity missive.
Spin Gets Spun
Paul Holmes over at The Holmes Report nails it in a post today on the difference between unadulterated spin and relationship-building. You'll have a hard time finding a better example/definition than the one Paul offers up.
Putting The “Ack!” In Flack
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 recent …
Putting The "Ack!" In Flack
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 recent …
Broadcast News Redux
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 …
PR Industry Takes Another One In The Tushy Because of Scrushy
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 …
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Somebody’s Watching Me (Or However That Rockwell Song Goes)
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 …
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Start Me Up
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.
A Windy Day At Whole Foods
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 a …
Intelligent Design Or Darwinism In Action?
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.
Mike Maney 