What a mistake that Christmas card was, says Jasper Gerard. Didn’t Derek Conway know that a Tory MP posing with his family meant he had something to hide? The Daily Telegraph 31st January 2008 Reaching for the marmalade, you glance at the photo on the Telegraph’s front page – and you are suddenly consumed by […]
I love this. A bunch of dance students seek fame by performing a stunt on the London Underground and then post it on Youtube. I am reliably informed that these are not a bunch of kids that have made up a dance routine in their living room who thought it would be funny to dance […]
Whoops what a celebrity slip up this morning. The unguarded comments made by Martin Amis appear in the Independent . The flak who policed the interview needs to be shot. The following extract might just cause the author a few problems. “And he has always loved this multiracialism, he says.” At that time, I had a Pakistani girlfriend, […]
Oh dear, another tale of stupid PR folk. There is a bit of a kerfuffle in the U.S. between Judith Siers-Poisson from the Centre for Media and Democracy and a hapless PR outfit fronted by Jennifer Windrum of the Swanson Russell Associates PR firm. PR watch has never been shy about being critical about the […]
The hearing on the suggested banning of Marion Knight from Compton is being held today. It’s interesting to see how Marion “Suge” Knight, the co-founder of Death Row Records, has called his recent involvement in being banned from Compton, “a publicity stunt”. Knight has been included in a request to ban members of the Mob […]
In 1933 on June 1st it was a bad day for Jack Morgan Jnr, head of the Morgan Financial Group, who had been summoned before a Senate Banking Committee. Visibly distressed under such public scrutiny while being badgered by the Banking committee’s chief counsel, Ferdinand Pecora, the proceedings became something a public carnival. But it […]
Two of John Birt’s former corporate strategists –who both became political advisers to Tony Blair — are now working on plans to top-slice the BBC’s licence fee as a way of financing other public service broadcasters http://www.spinwatch.org/content/blogcategory/306/85/
I love the hype that has surrounded the release of Cloverfield. After all its nearly ten years since the Blair Witch Project stole our attention. We all marveled then at the way the web would reinvent the marketing of movies .
To those outside the profession, PR has always seemed a cut throat business, and the associated businesses around it are certainly adding to that reputation of ruthlessness. Take for example the recruitment agencies; about 20% of them are decent, the other 80% would shaft their own grandmother, thus adding to the already poor reputation that PR […]
Students of PR, take note. To understand what gets the media’s knickers in a twist, look no further than Jeremy Paxman and the M&S gusset debate. Any good alchemist of spin will sniff the aroma. The well known inquisitor and self effacing presenter of serious political debate, focuses his precious attention on something as banal […]