Political spin was more sophisticated than business spin for some time. (Business soon caught up.) Now, in Britain at least, it is likely that a straight-forward approach might work well. Will the change be real? Will it spread?
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Political spin on 14 February 2010. 7 comments.
Oh! My! God! Organizing for America, the successor to Obama for America, is searching for a Social Networks Manager: apply here. But before you do read this. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 13 December 2009. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 1 December 2009. 2 comments.
The Nuclear Industry Association has just made a daft case about its future. Here’s a bolder, franker reality check PR pitch which might work better. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin on 26 November 2009. 4 comments.
Barack Obama has 2.6 million followers on Twitter and follows around 750, 000, but he recently admitted that he’s never Tweeted in his life. Are you surprised? I’m not. But some people might need to reconsider their hype. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Political spin on 29 August 2009. 2 comments.
Gordon Brown has been almost universally condemned for his silence over the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. So it is left to me to speak up for the prime minister’s right to remain silent in the heat of battle. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Media issues / Political spin / Trust and reputations on 22 May 2009. 9 comments.
I’m thinking of pitching for the PR business of restoring trust in British politics, its MPs and its Parliament. Somebody’s got to do it. In the spirit of transparency, here’s my first draft of a pitch. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 11 May 2009. No comments.
The details of British MPs’ expenses reads like a plot from a Carry On Film: Gordon Brown played by Sidney James, Hazel Blears by Barbara Windsor, Peter Mandelson by Kenneth Williams and John Prescott by Hattie Jacques. Still, the most important thing is to pay MPs more, and then move on. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Political spin on 11 May 2009. No comments.
There’s no doubt that Joanna Lumley is a great PR campaigner for the Gurkhas. However last week’s farcical impromptu negotiations with Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, outside a TV studio turned me against her almost as vehemently as I’m against New Labour. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Trust and reputations on 12 April 2009. 2 comments.
Message to Damian McBride and the remaining Labour Party spin-machine: Barack Obama, arguably the most respected politician on earth, said of himself: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.” More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin on 7 April 2009. 2 comments.
Initial reports suggested Gordon Brown’s Labour Party gained three percentage points in the opinion polls after last week’s G20 summit in London. However, a poll in today’s The Times suggests that the “New World Order” bounce for Brown was lost in the row over MPs’ expenses and in the post-summit analysis that exposed Gordon’s spin. More »
