Martin Luz

What will be the future of Stand Your Ground laws? Looks like the courts may be working their way toward clearer guidelines for when and how it applies...

In one case, a judge refused to grant stand-your-ground protection to Trevor Dooley, a 69-year-old man accused of manslaughter in the death...

So reporters are hopping mad because they aren't getting access to areas damaged by the BP oil spill catastrophe? Well honestly, to a great extent they have only themselves to blame.

At the start of the Iraq war, reporters sold their souls for access, showing powers-that-be just how easy...

Memo to oil apologists: When VHS supplanted BetaMax nobody shed a tear. When word processing software replaced typewriters, nobody shrieked about a socialist revolution in the steno pool. And when the jet engine replaced the propeller, there were no protests on the Mall in Washington about...

Lots of ink will be spilled over Lloyd Blankstare, I mean, Blankfein and the wide range of grimaces he managed to conjure as he was questioned. But the hoped for admission of guilt (a smoking gun?) came today from none other than the only individual named in the...

Since last Friday, CNN has been airing and re-airing a story about how Marines are trained to avoid civilian casualties in densely populated areas. Back in my PR agency days, this kind of "hit" would have been cause for celebration, maybe even a spot bonus.

This PR coup...

If you want to see how future national policy wars will be fought, then keep your eye on the Coca-Cola Company and the American Beverage Association. Over the next few years sugar will become the new tobacco -- even as they try to quash the movement before it gets going....

About a week ago, on ABC's This Week, Mme. Huffington told Roger Ailes that language matters. It certainly does.

So much so that it deserves its own regular featurette. And since that's one of our chief preoccupations at LiteralMayhem, we offer you:

Language Matters: an...

National debates -- like healthcare and financial reform -- tend to focus on the big concepts, big ideas, and big solutions. What gets lost, unfortunately are all the small, cumulative causes of the original problem.

That's unfortunate because the causes are too often tied to our own behavior and choices....

Now that the Administration has decided to get tough on Wall Street, you can bet there will be a lot of shrieking and gnashing of teeth - akin to the ringwraiths in The Lord Of The Rings in pursuit of "the Precious."

But before we cower, and...

Sometimes a story just sticks with you. Such is the crazy and amusing story of Dana Perino - Bush's White House House Press Secretary - who admitted she had no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. She asked: "Wasn't that, like, the Bay of Pigs thing?"

Here...

Public Relations is a funny business. And when I say "funny," I don't mean hilarious. I'm mean the same thing as your grandmother meant when she told you to "sit down and behave, no funny business."

Your grandmother was talking about something that used to be called "

Lest you think that PR is just for tarnished sports heroes, bankrupt corporations and divorcing GOP hypocrites heavyweights, last month China launched a PR campaign aimed at improving the image of "Made In China."

Indeed, they could use some PR help. On the "quality" front, China's reputation is...