BIG names and small voices on cue for Fringe
BIG names and small voices on cue for Fringe The Scotsman – Edinburgh,Scotland,UK … Comedians Boothby Graffoe and Jackie Clune and the publicist Mark Borkowski braved the storms to celebrate the launch of the 2004 Assembly Pleasance programme … http://news.scotsman.com/arts.cfm?id=722422004
DJ Tony is shoved over for Cliff
What a truly fantastic PR stunt – DJ Tony Blackburn suspended for playing too many Cliff Richard records. The scam is in all the papers this morning. A PR person can do no wrong when they use Sir Cliff as a muse because, as we all know, everyone loves a Cliff tale. So – set […]
Big Brother the dark side
The outrage continues in the press about the current series of Big Brother. The Mail on Sunday proclaims this morning So Big Brother do you still claim to care about the mental health of your inmates? I went public about this issue two series ago and was thrown off the official BB web site for […]
ROLL UP! It's Showtime, folks…
FRINGE promises sex, rock and possible injury The Scotsman – Edinburgh,Scotland, UK. … The headline-grabbing publicity agent Mark Borkowski is to sell himself in his own show, Son of a Barnum: A Stunt Too Far. Mr Gudgin … http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=663662004
OFFICIAL: Silly Season Is Here
The Silly Season has arrived. It’s official. Max Clifford spinning for the UK Independence Party and its new MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk… the Women’s Institute creating a piece of music to played on Tupperware as part of the Aldeburgh festival…no doubt about it: the unmistakable signs of the start of the silly season.
Big Brother Publicity Stunt Mk 1
From the Daily Mirror. A fairly obvious publicity stunt to get the geeks talking about Big Brother. An off-air cock-up is always a surefire hit to attract a bit of publicity. NET BOOB REVEALS WHAT BB BOSSES THINK Jun 7 2004 Exclusive By Andy Rudd BIG Brother bosses became stars of their own show yesterday […]
Celebrity and the Campaign Trail
Politics is often described as showbusiness for ugly people. Few politicians can resist the lure of the flashbulb – or the opportunity to bask in a little reflected showbiz glamour. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3746865.stm
Beckham The Training Ground Outburst
David Beckham today hit out at the media following a series of lurid claims about his private life, condemning coverage in the Daily Mail and the News of the World as an “absolute disgrace” and admitting he had considered boycotting certain media organisations. This underlines a couple of crucial issues. (1) The pressure is ON […]
AN ENORMOUS STINK
From this week’s spinwatch. I love to know how the big PR consultancies make a buck. http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/0512bksh.htm “BKSH & Assocs., Burson-Marsteller’s lobbying wing, is representing Radio Sedaye Iran (Radio Voice of Iran), the Beverly Hills-based network that advocates regime change in Iran,” reports O’Dwyers. Former BKSH clients include Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress. […]
Beware of the Darkness
Great quote in the Guardian today from Bill Drummond, the ex-KLF prankster. In a feature about his soup tour of the Britain, don’t ask. just click on this link http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1220512,00.html. He claims he frets about doing any PR, ‘I’m careful now about how I interact with the media.’ Great sound bite I suspect has been […]
Michael Moore and his ex PR reps
I notice from a diary item in the Express today that Macdonald / Rutter are no longer representing Michael Moore. I think we should all compare notes? Mr Moore is a fantastic film maker but it comes with a price
Now this is a great PR stunt
T-shirts equipped with ‘I, Robot’ trailer Coming soon to a T-shirt near you: trailers for “I, Robot,” starring Will Smith. In the never-ending search to capture the attention of consumers bombarded by commercials, billboards and a massive array of other advertisements, 20th Century Fox debuted an innovative new guerilla marketing tactic at E3 last week […]
Michael Moore the follow-up
Hot off the wires from the Canadian �National Post�… �In the days before Cannes, Michael Moore’s Disney criticism whipped festival audiences into a fever for Fahrenheit 9/11. Hollywood cynics called it the usual P.T. Barnum showmanship by Moore, but when the movie finally unspooled, it earned resounding applause at Monday’s press screenings.� Barnum � excellent. […]
Creative PR?
I’ve just come across a blogger called Loic Le Meur who feels that media companies need to adapt in the new world of journalism Traditional press releases are going to die soon. Journalists get hundreds of them everyday by fax and email( DOOH). This is one of the reasons why we (companies) pay PR agencies […]
Piers Morgan Goes and yet another Media Person makes a dignified exit
So Piers steps down. Has anybody noticed that, through all the scandals hitting the headlines during and after the Iraq war, the only resignations have come from the media world? Dyke…Gilligan…Davis….and now Morgan. We’ve yet to see a single Government goon take the pearl-handled revolver. Food for thought?
A Note from my Inbox, circa 2002
It’s funny how interesting this seems two years on….. Saudis spin like a well-oiled machine By Roger Franklin June 23 2002 Even among his rivals in the PR business Washington spinmeister Michael Petruzzello incites mixed emotions. For some, those whose outfits foundered in the wake of the dot-com bomb and September 11th, it’s a simple […]
The vile PR stunt that escalates the hatred
NICHOLAS BERG R.I.P. Stomach-churning, hideous images are the stock-in-trade of the Al Quaeda publicity department. Their cuttings library grows daily. To describe the destruction of four airliners and the World Trade Centre as the world’s blackest-ever PR stunt is not to intend disrespect to its innocent victims; rather it’s to acknowledge that Bin Laden and […]
Rumsfeld's End ?
It was a last ditch PR ploy, but Rumsfeld’s testimony may not save his job. The man squirmed on the spot as he faced difficult questions from the press corps. Gone was the swagger that framed his briefings at the height of ‘Shock and Awe’. Now called Torture-gate, the credibility of the US is below […]
All Quiet on the Soaring Sun Front
Odd how quiet it seems at The Sun this week. Think about it. Surely in the middle of this furore about Piers Morgan’s dodgy atrocitigraphs, and with the Express positively frothing at the mouth, you’d think Sun-readers would be being keenly browbeaten to do something or think something. But no. A gentle hush has descended. […]
PUT ANIMAL IN CHARGE
Lou Grant was an iconic TV show in the late 1970s starring Ed Asner as the eponymous newspaperman extraordinaire. The fictional L.A. Tribune he worked for employed a typical cast of clich�d characters including the Bright Young Reporter Joe Rossi, the septuagenarian female proprietor Mrs Pynchon (echoing Kay Graham who owned Newsweek and The Washington […]