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This week, I’m looking forward to catching up with contacts in person and comparing notes about business, which is one of the benefits of attending the Mackinac Policy Conference. I’ll be asked in conversation about trends and expect to talk about what’s happening as businesses try to withstand the front lines of the culture wars. … Continued
Just about everyone in the media business is about to spend their work weeks with at least half an eye on the happenings inside a Delaware courtroom as the gargantuan defamation lawsuit filed by Dominon Voting Systems against Fox News goes to trial. But those inside the PR business and those who are any part … Continued
You can’t make this stuff up. Even if you tried, you wouldn’t go as far as real life did. But it really did happen. And that means it could happen again. A few weeks ago, I got a call from a client I hadn’t worked with in years. They received an email inquiry from someone … Continued
“Get the widow on the set! We need dirty laundry.” Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry,” which offered biting criticism of broadcast news, along with some nice guitar solos, is now 41 years-old. The lyrics came to mind this week as 10 million of us in Michigan experienced an act of terrorism even though that isn’t how … Continued
If you’ve consumed news at all in recent days, you don’t need a PR type to explain to you what a mess Southwest Airlines has experienced. But, as someone who went to “Crisis PR Boot Camp” by representing an airline nearly 25 years ago, here’s some insight as to why the company’s PR approach has … Continued
There’s no excuse for antisemitism. Yet, it’s all around us. If you don’t see it beyond the comments of a rapper, whose name or even nickname I’d rather not bolster, then you aren’t paying attention. We live amid a culture of synagogue shootings, “very fine people on both sides” and Capitol-storming in Nazi gear. There’s … Continued