For two years or whatever, I blogged three times a week about publicity, speechwriting, public relations and scandals for The New York Times’about.com. If you are an author, actor, director, politician, professional athlete, rock star, user of social media or otherwise in the public eye, THESE POSTS ARE USEFUL TO YOU. If you live in an ice cave, you can safely ignore all this stuff and go back to tanning that elk hide.
Case studies about millionaire jocks
Jorge Posada: Why Pro Athletes Can’t Be Seen as Quitters
Lessons Learned from LeBron James and the Miami Heat
Case studies from AROUND THE WORLD
Egypt: The First Twitter Revolution?
China’s PR blunder with the Nobel Peace Prize
Will Al-Queda Die with Osama Bin Laden?
Would love to see you dissect the Komen PR disaster with what they should have done. I think they should have smushed down Brinker’s hair, among other things. How ’bout it?
Brinker’s hair was epic. All around, a complete hash job by people who had built up 5.93 metric tons of good will. What a colossal blunder.