Lies and Secrets: the currency of public relations
You don’t have to dig too far to find criticisms of public relations as involving lying and other less than ethical practices. The normal response from the industry is denial,…
PR is what PR does – a question of ethics
Not surprisingly there’s been a great deal of discussion of ethics in relation to the News Corp phone-hacking scandal. Although journalism and corporate governance are facing the real ethical questions,…
OOPS! Gordon Brown's recent debacle leads public relators to think this one out, with some care….
If a subject to be trusted is ‘one who does what he says….walk the talk and, when useful, talk the walk…' then we must discipline ourselves to think, speak privately…
Why Every Communicator Should Agonize about France’s “Game of Death”
The power of the media and the ethics of communication are recurring themes for PR professionals and other communcators. Can an authoritative media voice push anyone to cross ethical lines…
Transforming a Fly into an Elephant: our Russian Colleagues have an Official Hymn! While CIPR in the UK grants Chartered Status to 25 professionals
….And it’s true, my friend, we can even do miracles, create a legend; turn a fairy-tale into reality, transform a fly into an elephant, a donkey – into a camel,…
Difference between King III and King II Reports on Governance
The King Report on Governance for South Africa 2009 and the King Code of Governance Principles (King III) plus the Practice Notes that support it, were released at the beginning…
The two-faced god and our cusp catastrophe
News that celebutante Kim Kardashian is to produce a ‘reality’ show on public relations sent shivers of dread down my spine this week. More than anything else, it highlighted (for…
Cultural diversities [sic], isn’t it implicit?
As early as my teenage years, I claimed that every family is a kingdom with its own culture and language. It only took the annual debates over which grandmother’s stuffing…
Who should be dealing with the sponsoring of online conversations?
A sponsored online conversation is loosely defined as ‘the practice of paying a blogger to post about your brand’. This is how Bateman Group’s Bill Bourdon begins a post in…
Information overload: a public relator’s risk, but also an opportunity….
In a report here from an Iabc conference last February in Lugano I suggested a thorough consultation of Martin Eppler and Jeanne Mengis ‘s research paper on informaton overload as…