What can be said about a company that is caught multiple times doing wrong yet persists? It has no shame. This is the situation with Huawei and its advertising of its cell phones. Huawei persists in using DSLR images to hype the quality of its cell phone camera. It’s as if the company doesn’t trust […]
Posted on March 15th, 2019 by admin
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The Roman Catholic Church is learning the impact of scandal on the tolerance of believers. A recent Gallup poll in the US “found that 37 percent of respondents said ‘recent news about sexual abuse of young people by priests’ has them personally questioning whether to remain Catholic — a 15 point increase since 2002.” The results were […]
Posted on March 14th, 2019 by admin
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Yesterday’s Google Doodle celebrating the birth of the World Wide Web was a reminder of how radically it has changed PR. Those of us ancient enough to remember the days before the Web will recall how difficult it was to convince CEOs of reputation issues, of persuasion that did not include advertising and the power […]
Posted on March 13th, 2019 by admin
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Political operatives are opening fake local news websites. They are attempting to mislead voters into thinking stories on them are objective when they are nothing more than partisan propaganda. It is regrettable and dishonest. There is nothing wrong with taking sides. Newspapers in America started that way, and some still survive with a political bent. […]
Posted on March 12th, 2019 by admin
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Eli Lilly has announced it will make a generic version of its diabetes drug, Humalog. that will sell for half the price of its branded product. It seems like a good PR move until one examines the price — $137.35 a vial. That’s still too steep for diabetics who must pay for the treatment out […]
Posted on March 6th, 2019 by admin
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Google said it discovered it was paying some women more than men for similar jobs. This is a man-bites-dog story. It is so unusual that it garnered headlines nationally. While it is never good to have pay inequities, it is a sign of company concern for women that it inadvertently got itself into this position. […]
Posted on March 6th, 2019 by admin
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PR and publicity can go only so far. At some point recipients of messages accept or ignore them. One can persuade but not compel. Consider this example. Railroad authorities have repeated ad nauseum a warning to respect gates at crossings and to never, never go around them when they are down. Yet, a driver did. […]
Posted on February 28th, 2019 by admin
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Major brewers and packaged good marketers in the US are facing a conundrum. Consumers are passing them by and buying other products off grocery shelves and from liquor stores. Sales of Budweiser, particularly, have stalled. Anheuser-Busch is working frantically to turn around. The company is being assaulted by thousands of craft breweries whose production is a fraction of what […]
Posted on February 27th, 2019 by admin
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YouTube is learning that, despite its efforts, evil is winning and destroying the video channel’s reputation. Major advertisers have left because child pornographers have found a way to penetrate YouTube’s algorithms. The company has reacted by “terminating more than 400 channels, deleting accounts, and disabling comments on tens of millions of videos.” But, it is […]
Posted on February 24th, 2019 by admin
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Google committed a technology faux pas by failing to tell customers that its Net Secure Smart Home hub has a microphone built in. People concerned about privacy were unhappy. How could the company forget to mention it in technical specifications? The company says it was a mistake and was never intended to be a secret. […]
Posted on February 21st, 2019 by admin
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