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Public relations professionals and corporate executives who are savvy about working with the media well understand the time-honored adage that one should “never get in a fight with a guy who buys printers ink by the barrel.” “Printers ink,” of course, is extended in today’s environment to include airtime and pixels. In any case, the message [...] Communicators come in basically two flavors. There are those who seek out and cobble together bits and pieces of information and render them into news fit to print, in one fashion or another. And there are the communicators who create and distribute those bits and pieces of information for the hunter-gatherers to devour. While the two [...] Business communicators should find very instructive the mushrooming of issues and emergence of discontent evident during the summer Congressional recess. When Congress recessed for the annual August month of hometown visits and foreign junkets, healthcare reform seemed to be the one issue the lawmakers would have to contend with when they returned to generally friendly home [...] As a corporate communicator, when you notify the media, analysts or investors of a impending major announcement, it’s a good idea to follow through. Failure to do so undercuts your credibility and feeds suspicions about your priorities, planning, and execution. And such was the case for President Obama’s staff over the weekend. On Friday, June 26, Obama’s [...] Managing communications in a crisis environment is difficult. But, when you have a senior executive with unlimited media access who operates with a ready-fire-aim approach, then life for the crisis manager becomes just plain miserable. And so it was this afternoon for White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs — attempting to clean up after [...] When a third of the sampled population approves and another third disapproves, there’s plenty of opportunity for communications spinners to twist this one just about any way they want. That’s because as President Obama reaches his 100th day in office, the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll, in part, today shows that Obama’s approval-disapproval spread [...] Business as usual for President Obama is getting off to a rough start, with his Cabinet nominees not paying their taxes – and apparently not telling their prospective boss. [Ooooh! That's real embarrassing.] And the folks on Wall Street perceiving his economic recovering package as something rather like a Mary Poppins promise. Times columnist Frank Rich wrote ["Slumdogs Unite"] on Sunday, Feb. 8, that “Obama was blindsided by the savagery and speed of (Tom) Daschle’s demise,” which included Times and WSJ editorials calling for him to step away from his HHS Secretary nomination. Rich suggested that Obama may be melding into the Washington insider’s environment of privilege and power [and lack [...] Times columnist Frank Rich wrote ["Slumdogs Unite"] on Sunday, Feb. 8, that “Obama was blindsided by the savagery and speed of (Tom) Daschle’s demise,” which included Times and WSJ editorials calling for him to step away from his HHS Secretary nomination. Rich suggested that Obama may be melding into the Washington insider’s environment of privilege and power [and lack [...] Bulletin Web headline from ABC News: “Citigroup to Refuse Delivery of New Jet Under Pressure from White House [8:43 a.m. ET]” To have put themselves in the position to be admonished by the President’s office is a serious lapse of business acumen, and further undermines the public’s opinion of “big business” and bankers in particular. Good that [...] |
 
 
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