Mark My Words
Rocky Ryan has died
Sorry to see that the great pankster and media mischief maker Rocky Ryan has died. Given his record, there’s always the possibility that reports of his passing have been greatly exaggerated. Apparently, one of his aliases was Rocco Salvatore. Not the most common of names. Strangely, there was a Rocco Salvatore in my class at […]
A changing world puts public relations in a spin
Never mind Nick Davies’s suggestion that overworked ‘churnalists’ are being hoodwinked by PRs, Mark Borkowski says flaks and hacks are both struggling to cope with the news cycle. So the media world is flipping over and over like a gigantic overdone pancake because of the ethical fix caused by publication of Nick Davies’ book Flat […]