Talk to a PR veteran.  Watch him or her work.  And I don’t mean the young AE’s fresh out of J School.  The ones who the companies go to when the national pitch is on the line.  The ones who get called in when the sh$t hits the fan.  Those PR veterans.  Listen to them [...]

Remember that song “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles? Well if you are not as ancient as I, you can watch it here. For a moment it makes you wonder what went wrong with America in the 1980s.
Sure, MTV may have been the beginning of the end for music radio. But the reality [...]

Regardless of my political leaning, I’ve always felt the greatest failure of George W. Bush’s administration was its unwillingness to be accountable.
We have seen time and time again, when someone makes a mistake, and then in response stands up and takes responsibility for that mistake, the American people, in general, will forgive and eventually forget.
On [...]

One of the challenges we face in today’s online information landscape is managing the immediacy and permanence of what we choose to say, write or post.
The tools are a blessing in that we can get what we want, when we want it. It’s not just a 24-hours news cycle — it’s and up-to-the-minute news cycle [...]

I’ve had the fortune — some good and some bad — of working for a wide range of businesses on a diverse set of issues over the past 17 years or so. I did the TV gig — it wasn’t for me. I went to PR and have done corporate, agencies big and small, government, [...]