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AIG's PR Machine: Four Top PR Firms, Plus In-House Team

Breakingviews.com | Lauren Silva Laughlin | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: AIG Bailout, Public Relations AIG, Aig, American International Group, Aig Pr Firms, Aig Public Relations, Public Relations, Business News

AIG PR: American International Group is keeping the spin machine employed. The US insurance giant - which just received its fourth taxpayer bailout - ...

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Jason Linkins

Fox News Determined To Break New Ground In Satiric Disclaimers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Fox News Ratings, Public Relations, Media News

Apparently, not everybody's pet chimpanzee was shot dead in a terrifying police standoff. Some continue to ply their trade in public relations, like ...

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Words That Worked in 2008 (and Some That Didn't): A Report Card

Michael Maslansky | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lists, Experience, Political Language, Words, Propoganda, Volt, Maverick, Political Persuasion, Buzzwords, Change, Drill, Surge, Bailout, Public Relations, 2008 Campaign, Subprime, Communications, Year in Review, Politics News
Michael Maslansky

The following is our admittedly subjective ranking of the top ten words of 2008 and how well people used them.

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Memo to Automakers Wagoner, Mulally & Nardelli: Fire Your PR People

Pam Atherton | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Public Relations, Big Three Automakers, ABC News, Automakers Bailout, Brian Ross, Private Jet, Robert Nardelli, Alan Mulally, Richard Wagoner, Cars, US News & World Report, Bailout Plan, Rick Newman, The Big 3, Business News
Pam Atherton

How these three CEO's have acted is a classic teachable moment. They've practically written the curriculum for the class on how to alienate the American public by their actions.

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10 Tips for Communicating in Tough Times

James Hoggan | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Jim Hoggan, Hoggan, Economy, Public Relations, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Economic Collapse, James Hoggan and Associates, Communications, James Hoggan, Business News
James Hoggan

Here is some news you can use: 10 tips that have emerged over a public relations career of dealing with difficult announcements.

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Family Votes McCain, But That Doesn't Stop This Obama Supporter

Chidimma Ozor | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Election Day, Hometown Heroes, Nevada Obama, Public Relations, Las Vegas, Nevada, Election 2008, Obama Volunteers, Steinbeck Communications, Barack Obama, Obama Volunteers Stories, John McCain, Home News
Chidimma Ozor

Paul Speirs is president of Steinbeck Communications, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm, whose clients include top companies in the gaming indus...

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Mr. Bill: "Oh No, Fix the Coast you Broke, Shell Oil!"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Gulf Restoration, Public Relations, Message, Oil, Katrina, Wetlands, Green Living, Media, Mr. Bill, Shell Oil, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Meanwhile: Conspiracy Rumors Swirl Around Photo Op An ominous email came in to the sluggo.com listserv, and writers for independent media knew it...

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China's PR Fiascos: Blocking iTunes Just the Latest in Ongoing Olympics PR Disaster

Celia Alario | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media

Read More: China Human Rights Violations, Tibet, China Tibet, Olympics, China, Public Relations, Media News
Celia Alario

A few hours before iTunes became blocked in China, news surfaced about Songs for Tibet, a compilation CD offered free to Olympic athletes.

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When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum, Ethics in Journalism, Newspaper Op-Eds, Journalism, Public Relations, Dick Van Dyke, Sclc, Congressional Record, Calvin Trillin, Charles Steele, Jr., Victor Navasky, Media News
William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

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Internet Reputation Defenders: When Googling Yourself Gets Ugly

Baton Rouge Business Report | Lisa Lacy | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Chris Martin, Vanity Googling, Terence Banich, Internet Reputation, Public Relations, Vanity Google, Search Engine Optimization, ReputationHawk, Google, Public Image, Business News

Chris Martin doesn't have to worry about his online reputation as much as some people. If you Google his name, you get pages and pages of results abou...

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The Floods: Army Corps Says PR Firms Transform "Babblers" into "Spokespersons"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, USACE; Army Corpss of Engineering, Public Relations, Iowa, Katrina, Floods, Media Spin, Levees, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

The Army Corps has known for some time that the levee systems needed restructuring. It appears that rather than improving them, they chose to hire PR firms to help with crisis communications.

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How Two Tweens Sitting Poolside In Los Angeles On Sunday Set Out To Save A Farm By Thursday

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Magnet School, Marketing, Youth, Protest, Farm, Public Relations, Tweens, Animals, Paul Revere School, Activists, Green News
Stacie Krajchir

Some concerned citizen wrote one letter to their school, accusing them of abusing the animals on their farm on campus and these girls are spearheading a full protest.

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What's a Little Marketing Between Friends? Two Years Hard Time

Lucas Conley | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Procter and Gamble, John Mackey, Steve Grover, Advertisers, NASCAR., Word-of-Mouth, Pr, Madison Ave, Marketers, Web 2.0, Marketing, Advertising, Flog, Public Relations, Consumers, Customers, Astroturf, Tremor, Wom, Vocalpoint, Business News
Lucas Conley

As lawmakers in the UK have figured out, when marketers mingle among consumers, the results are often more artifice than advertising.

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What's A Millennial To Do?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Journalism, Business School, Millenials, Automotive, Career Advice, Media, Public Relations, Advertising, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

God created youth for people to do what they wanted to do. When you get a little bit older, life closes in on you and, caught in a variety of strictures produced by our ambitions, desires and needs, we each take on responsibilities that require us to do a bunch of stuff we donÂ’'t wanna.

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FEMA's Fake News Conference Named 2007's Biggest PR Disaster

Forbes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Top 10 PR Blunders, Fake FEMA Conference, Public Relations, PR Blunders, Media News

It has been yet another banner year for all manner of PR gaffes and errors. The 13th Annual Top 10 PR Blunders List, compiled by San Francisco's Finem...

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