It’s not something you could have predicted – a serious discussion two evenings running on the BBC’s Newsnight on the price of warm bakery products. But that’s what we got last week, as the row about George Osborne’s budget ‘pasty tax’ hotted up. As a large national bakery chain, Greggs could be hardest hit by
Continue reading →Pontins turns crisis into PR disaster
October 14, 2011 By
The poor woman – you could almost feel sorry for her. As a piece of crisis management, pretty well anything that could go wrong, did. Under the fierce glow of Anne Robinson’s Watchdog studio lights, live on prime time BBC1 last night, it was Eileen Downey’s job to defend the reputation of Pontins, the holiday
Continue reading →What if you feel you have been invited on to radio or TV under false pretences?
September 5, 2011 By
If you feel you have been invited on to a TV or radio programme under false pretences, should you make this clear to viewers and listeners by throwing a strop? My usual advice is no, it will probably make you look self-important and rather pathetic – if you’re unable to cope with the hurly-burly of
Continue reading →The new rules for pre-recorded TV interviews
April 15, 2011 By
What is the ‘etiquette’ in a pre-recorded TV interview when a guest fluffs his or her lines and wants another go, or hasn’t got an answer to the question and wants time to think, or wants a question re-phrased because they feel it is predicated on a factual inaccuracy? It is common practice to take
Continue reading →Lazy hacks churn out PR guff shocker
February 25, 2011 By
Latest on the ‘churnalism’ debate – the apparently increasing practice of newspaper and website journalists producing copy by the simple expedient of rewriting – or in some cases just reprinting – press releases, avoiding the tedious process of actually having to bother to check any facts. A new website created by a charity called the
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