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Let’s not turn media dramas into real crises

Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management on 12 February 2010. One comment.

Contrary to popular crisis management mythology, most dramas and disasters aren’t really crises at all. Chin up: things aren’t often really all that bad. More »

Where was Mr Toyoda yesterday?

Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management on 3 February 2010. 3 comments.

Made public yesterday, the last words from a family of four: “We’re in a Lexus. . . and we’re going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck. . . we’re in trouble. . . there’s no brakes. . . we’re approaching the intersection. . . hold on. . . hold on and pray. . . pray.” More »

A gung-ho argument for nuclear power

Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues / Trust and reputations on 29 November 2009. 6 comments.

BBC Newsnight recently claimed that UK government plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to fill the energy gap by 2020 are hopelessly optimistic. The industry responded by claiming it will be on time and on budget. It’s a phoney debate on both sides. More »

BM’s COO Roman Geiser interviewed

Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues on 12 November 2009. One comment.

When local boy Roman Geiser, Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss CEO, was catapulted into the stratosphere as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, I just had to make the twenty-minute train ride to Zurich to interview him. More »

PR to marry and lead marketing

Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues on 5 November 2009. 5 comments.

What’s the difference between marketing and PR? That’s a good question, particularly when the likes of Lord Chadlington and Lord Bell are, rightly, calling for more integration between the two disciplines. More »

Future trends in PR? Look East!

Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / PR issues on 14 October 2009. One comment.

I’ve got that post-holiday feeling (seven days by Lake Lugano, thanks). You’ll know it. Suddenly I think I understand lots of stuff … So here’s what I think is going wrong in a good deal of PR thought. More »

MPs’ Carry On fiasco

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 »

Japan’s lesson for a tougher kind of PR

Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management on 26 March 2009. 5 comments.

If we want a glimpse of where PR might go over the next ten years, we should examine Japan. The world’s second-largest economy’s property bubble burst 20 years ago. Since then deflation, recession and reality have broken the country’s commitment to consensus building, as Leo Lewis argues in “Japan’s harsh new reality” in today’s Times. More »

The death of journalism? Not likely!

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues on 23 March 2009. 4 comments.

Clay Shirky argues in his controversial article “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” that because the barriers to entry in the industry have fallen close to zero, the future of newspaper-type journalism looks bleak in the internet age. I beg to differ. More »

The web suits the BNP better than the mainstream

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Political spin on 13 March 2009. 5 comments.

The British National Party (BNP) is thrashing the mainstream parties – but only online. This says as much about the internet as it does about politics, and I don’t think the mainstream should overdo its response. More »

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