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 [...]
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Shocked, I Tell You! Shocked!
Posted on Nov 19 , 2009 in Communication & Government Social Media & Reputation & Social Media & Spin This! & Transparency
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Why David Letterman Will Never Apologize
Posted on Jun 12 , 2009 in Communication & Crisis Management & Reputation & Spin This!
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 moment [...]
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Correcting the Record: Using Newspaper Comments for Public Relations Benefit
Posted on Aug 17 , 2007 in Communication & Persuasion & PR & Reputation & Spin This!
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 your [...]