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…
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Why? Why? Why?
Three people sit around a table chatting happily. Work. Family. Friends. Crazy adventures. Add a glass or two of wine. Stories get embellished, and you’re in a mood to solve the mysteries…
Noise & Substance
Pick your fights carefully. Preferably ones you’ll win. Opinions, they say, are like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn’t make them right. But people are seldom eager to back down. Sometimes it’s pride…
Progress & Reinvention
Technology drives progress. The challenge is reinvention. Another bit of technology and history is biting the dust: Movies on film. But shed no tears. Paramount Pictures is notifying theater operators that, going…
Beyond Belief
As the world changes, we adapt. If we fail, clients pay the price. Long ago in a classroom far away, an instructor gave an assignment to a group of fresh-eyed journalism students:…
The Underbelly of Finessing Reputation
“Can’t fool all the people all the time. But with the internet, you can get close.” Since time immemorial, there have been those who polished the reputations of others. Plato did it…
Everything’s Apocryphal
Media defines your world. But whose version is true? “Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.” ~ Will Durant, 20th century American philosopher & historian The same is true…
Trains, Planes & Media Mistakes
Rumors and media mistakes now speed around the world in mere seconds. In 1873, Jules Verne captivated readers with “Around the World in 80 Days,” a saga of steamships and trains. In…
There are no such things as magical unicorns…or PR do-overs
Too bad these don’t exist in real life…In PR, there are no do overs. Journalists are a lot of things. Forgiving isn’t one of them. (I know, because I was one.) If…