When image control becomes damage control: are you prepared for difficult questions from journalists? (Webcast opportunity for readers of PRC)

This morning CNW Group sponsored one of its semi-regular “Breakfast with the Media” events, this time featuring investigative reporter, Robert Cribb (see full description below). I registered to attend in person, but as a morning meeting got scheduled too close to the event, I opted to listen to the webcast instead. As is often the case with webcasts, CNW Group announced at the session that it will be archived and available for several months (generally...

1982 Tylenol case a misleading myth: O’Dwyer takes on Fortune, J& J and the public relations establishment!!

My good and esteemed friend, Jack O’Dwyer, has overturned yet another rug from the dainty sitting room in which our professional community enjoys talking to herself in the mirror in the most onanistic of behaviours (not that, as bloggers, we act differently…) and the air does not smell so good…. Just in case, according to Wikipedia, Onan is a person described in the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. The word onanism, an older...