In the foreword to “Public Opinion” by Walter Lippman, Ronald Steel cites the author as saying people define “according to ‘stereotypes’ imposed by our culture”. Most of the media reports regarding the final of American Idol clearly reflect this as: The All-American, married boy next-door defeated the glammed-out, leather-clad rocker. Or is that: Clean-cut country [...]
Archive for May, 2009
And the winner is…
Posted in Public Relations, Thinking on May 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ego plus ego equals easy money
Posted in Thinking on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American Idol time – this week, Adam Lambert performed One by U2 – which was personally chosen by Simon Cowell, who had to obtain the express permission of Bono, apparently. As Mike Farley at Premium Hollywood says: “I can feel the pressure of Cowell’s and Bono’s big heads swelling from here. Get over yourselves.” How [...]
Sometimes cars are too clever
Posted in Motoring, Public Relations on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Transport for London is going to trial speed limiters on a number of vehicles this Summer – which reminds me of the EUREKA Prometheus car project from the late 1980s/early 1990s. As a PR officer at Peugeot, I took a group of journalists on a visit to drive new car systems, which included autonomous intelligent [...]
American Idol addict
Posted in Thinking on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Wednesday morning – that means I have to check out the American Idol news and videos as I’m just addicted to this Season’s Adam Lambert. The show doesn’t broadcast in the UK until Thursday night, with the results on Friday – but I can’t wait until then, so each week, I’m turning on my [...]
Edelbytes the PR Conversation
Posted in Public Relations on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Participants in the collaborative PR Conversations blog (including myself) were recently asked to pose questions to Richard Edelman, president and CEO of the world’s largest, independent PR consultancy. The resulting post: Sixteen Edelbytes has just been published. This group Q&A approach was first used at PR Conversations with James Grunig last October – and his [...]
The PR Model of Excellence: a Greenbanana guide in 500 words
Posted in Education, Public Relations, tagged 2-way symmetric communications, Excellence Study, Grunig, IABC, Model of Excellence, Public Relations on May 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The following is intended as a quick revision guide to the PR Model of Excellence study undertaken by David Dozier, Larissa Grunig, James Gunig, William Ehling, Fred Repper and Jon White in the 1990s. It is not a substitute for wider reading and reflection on the topic, but provides a brief overview – in 500 [...]
Swine flu spreads too fast for marketing
Posted in Public Relations on May 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The UK government has taken a largely traditional marketing approach with the “Catch It, Bin It, Kill It” campaign to inform the public about personal hygiene matters in the face of the swine flu pandemic. One of the problems with this strategy is that speed of response is impacted by the time needed to produce [...]
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