There appears to be no limit to the attack ads politicians aim at one another. Consider this one. A disabled candidate confined to a wheel chair is no safer than anyone else in eyes of the opponent. But, the public is another matter. If voters conclude a politician has gone too far, they will vote […]
Posted on October 15th, 2014 by admin
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This article discusses the difficulty of expressing emotion in emails. Readers who don’t know one well inevitably misunderstand what one is trying to say. The solution is to avoid emotion and to write as rationally and objectively as possible. The objection to this approach is that it fails to deliver the feeling one has about […]
Posted on October 10th, 2014 by admin
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One of the essential roles of PR is to maintain communications and transparency during panic situations. For example, this one. Because Ebola systems are close to the flu in initial stages, people are frightened and are burdening a medical system that needs to be free to deal with real cases. Without constant communication from […]
Posted on October 9th, 2014 by admin
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Jeff Bezos of Amazon is in the middle of a smart move online. He is preparing to make a subscription to the Washington Post, which he owns, a part of the Kindle, the reader Amazon invented. This will provide content to news consumers nationwide and extend the Post’s reach far beyond the Beltway where it […]
Posted on October 8th, 2014 by admin
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The world population is growing towards 11 billion people. To feed them will take a revolution in agriculture. But, progress in developing new methods of growing crops has lagged. It seems that world governments have other priorities at the moment. Not only that, but crop developers like Monsanto are under pressure from activists who disdain […]
Posted on October 7th, 2014 by admin
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Vice President Joe Biden is notorious for off-the-cuff remarks that regularly get him into trouble. He has done it again and angered allies in the fight against terrorists. So now he is apologizing to the countries involved and causing domestic observers to wonder if he is up for a run for president. It is not […]
Posted on October 6th, 2014 by admin
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Mobile games are a marketplace of one-hit successes followed by little to nothing. How do you do PR for a company or the industry at large? PR and publicity resting on a one-hit wonder is a foundation of sand on the edge of an ocean. Once the public tires of the game, there isn’t a bulwark […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2014 by admin
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The Boston Herald ran a cartoon of Obama brushing his teeth and an intruder washing in the bathtub. The image was a jab at the Secret Service for letting an intruder into the White House. The words in the balloon, however, inadvertently exposed the Herald to politically correct criticism. The intruder asks if Obama is […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2014 by admin
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Congressional hearings are naught but show trials. For example, this one. Everyone can understand the mistakes the Secret Service made in allowing an intruder to the White House. So, Congressional leaders dusted off their best insults and quotable lines and flung them at the director of the agency all the while hoping they would get […]
Posted on October 1st, 2014 by admin
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