Plenty of outrage this week with Jeremy Clarkson forced to issue an apology for his rant about striking public sector workers. In case you missed it, Clarkson’s latest outburst came on the ever-so-cosy The One Show, you can view it here along with the full context of what he actually said. Essentially, when asked about the …
Scanning the web this morning for blogging fodder, I learnt that some big, shiny London PR agencies received a curious email last month, purporting to be from Libya’s Ministry of Information. Turns out this mysterious ministry was asking for PR support to improve the image of Muammar Gaddafi. Many dismissed it as the work of …
Say what you like about the man, the leader and the politics but boy the President of the United States can hold a crowd! Some commentators may have likened it more to a pep rally than a memorial service but there is no doubting that this event, called to honour Rep. Gabby Giffords and other …
Well this will be interesting to revisit next year….Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg snaffled the Communicator of the Year gong in last night’s PRWeek Awards 2010. The judges made up of senior PR types praised Clegg for his general election comms campaign that “positioned him as a fresh alternative to the other political parties.” …
Another week, another memoir from another master of spin. This week, Tony Blair vowed to hand the £4.6m advance and any profits from his autobiography to the Royal British Legion to open a state-of-the-art sports centre for wounded servicemen.
So it seems Dave isn’t going to apologise for his comments about Pakistan promoting ‘the export of terror’ and “looking both ways”. Considering he is meeting with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari later this week, this is PR hardball.
There is no doubt that this will have been an awful and incredibly stressful time for Mr Hayward and senior BP figures personally but the problem is that he and BP keep reminding us of us this as if we should all feel sorry for them. That is just not going to fly. Nobody cares about BP – they care about the totaldevastation caused and what can be done about it.
The whole story “whiffs” of mistrust. Mistrust of the bullying helpline to keep schtum on sensitive issues, mistrust of the PRs (real or not) lurking in the background around the motives for Ms Pratt’s first ill-advised comments, mistrust of the Prime Minister and Number 10’s culture and mistrust of David Cameron and his ability to make political capital out of any situation.
I’ve just spent an hour watching Gordon Brown deliver his crucial speech to the Labour Party Conference. For a man who struggles with what his media personality actually is, he did very well. Why? Well, he was himself. I think. Gordon admitted he has been criticised in the media for being too serious. His response? …