Archive for the ‘Spin This!’ Category

Shocked, I Tell You! Shocked!

19 Nov 2009 at 09:53

Michael Sommermeyer

Communication, Government Social Media, Reputation, Social Media, Spin This!, Transparency

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So President Obama doesn’t Twitter? Does that come as a big surprise? He made the announcement to a group of Chinese students this week in Shanghai that he never used Twitter. This sent the Twitter Trends on a rampage and people were upset, shocked and in disbelief:

@meredithwrogers “Obama probably shouldn’t have let it be [...]

Why David Letterman Will Never Apologize

12 Jun 2009 at 16:28

Michael Sommermeyer

Communication, Crisis Management, Reputation, Spin This!

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David Letterman’s crass joke about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter is really no different from when Don Imus called a group of women essentially whores. You call my teenage daughter promiscuous as a joke, and all politics aside, I’m going to loose it. Before you start commenting already, set aside your political views for a [...]

Correcting the Record: Using Newspaper Comments for Public Relations Benefit

17 Aug 2007 at 15:28

Michael Sommermeyer

Communication, PR, Persuasion, Reputation, Spin This!

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University of Oregon Associate Professor Scott R.Maier, who teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication, has discovered that fewer than 2 percent of factually flawed articles are corrected at daily newspapers in the United States. Which means that quite a bit of flawed and damaging information is left out there to potentially ruin [...]

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