It’s a problem as old as time: People feel they’re entitled and aren’t subject to the same rules as the rest of us. Often it’s celebrities, the wealthy, and the politically prominent.…
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Kathy Griffin
How often do you look at both sides of an issue? We all come to the table with pre-formed opinions. We see the world through a prism, which is shifted every day…
Learning from Your Mistakes (United Airlines Edition)
In the end, United (finally) got it right. But only after days of excruciatingly bad publicity. Were its belated positive actions too little and too late to repair its image? United’s floundering…
Why Covering Up Sex Scandals Doesn’t Work
Elite East Coast boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall certainly wasn’t the first to be caught up in a teacher-student sex scandal. Nor, sadly, will it be the last. What’s more, trying to…
Attorney-Client Privilege Under Attack?
The Ides of March came one day early this year. At first glance, a California appellate court ruling on March 14th seemed to imperil the concept that the work of Crisis PR…
Is A Scandal Real If No One Notices?
Now is an excellent time to have a scandal. Regardless of who you voted for, we can all agree on one thing: With the media all atwitter about Donald Trump’s tweets, you…
Opps. I mean…Oops!
Life doesn’t always give you an eraser. You’re judged on everything you say and do. Your reputation rises or falls based on whether you’re perceived as wise and substantial, or shallow and…
Cookie Jar
Don’t let greed turn you into a fat cat. Where there’s money, there’s temptation. Where there’s temptation, some people can’t resist. It’s a tale as old as time, and it infects…
Can’t Look Away
There’s news. Then there’s NEWS. Sometimes you can’t look away. Some published stories are little more than a matter of record and quickly forgotten, if they’re noticed at all. Others have some…
Damned If You Do. Damned If You Don’t.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re making tough calls about how to handle a sticky situation, there’ll always be someone criticizing your actions. Same goes for happier decisions like which flavor of…