Archive for January, 2010
The Perino Conundrum: Tyranny of PR’s Expert Inexperts
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010image: iamatvjunkie.typepad.com
Sometimes a story just sticks with you. Such is the crazy and amusing story of Dana Perino – Bush’s White House House Press Secretary – who admitted she had no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. She asked: “Wasn’t that, like, the Bay of Pigs thing?
Here was the spokesperson for the “leader of [...]
Tank Warfare: Alaska PR Initiative Targets Polar Bears
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Public Relations is a funny business. And when I say “funny” I don’t mean hilarious. I mean the same thing as your grandmother did when she told you to “sit down there and behave and no funny business.”
She was talking about something that used to be called “shenanigans."
Well, the PR business gets up to a [...]