Category Archives: Politics

Indian Point PR Campaign may pit Cuomo vs. Giuliani

For a PR person who loves to follow politics and lives in Northern Westchester County, NY, it just doesn't get any better. The NY Times reported today that Indian Point nuclear plant owner Entergy is in talks with former NYC … Continue reading

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Weiner and Sheen: Possibly the Best Pitchmen for PR

For the very definition of unscripted, unplugged and a little if not a lot nutty public figures, you have first Charlie Sheen and then Anthony Weiner, possibly the best advertisements for PR in recent memory. They both took us on … Continue reading

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Black and Bloomberg (Video Killed the Education Czar)

Bloomberg's embattled pick for schools chief, Cathleen Black, was removed from the position last week. In the end, it seems the empress had no clothes – or at least not everything needed to convince others (and herself) that she could … Continue reading

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From Telephone to Twitter – Hits and Misses in Andrew Cuomo’s PR Playbook

It is a new political season, and there's been lots of coverage about the new landscape and incoming class.  Politics follows not too far behind my primary passions of PR, technology and social media.  So I especially like to track … Continue reading

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Assault on the Media: When Politicians Attack

When politicians go on the attack it is a sure sign that it is campaign season, and the targets often are other politicians. However, as the New York Times wrote yesterday, in this election cycle, it would seem that the … Continue reading

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Obama v. Media: Is Tiff with Fox well Advised?

There was a good article in the NY Times Sunday Week in Review, The Battle is Joined; Now What? about the Obama administration's much talked-about dust up with the Fox News.  According to the story: Administration officials seemed to have … Continue reading

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Now, you too can be a Political PR Playa

You love reading about their campaigns in all the major media. You aspire to their level of PR sophistication.  Although you realize that their world is harsh, unforgiving and demanding, you somehow covet their klieg lights and glory and believe … Continue reading

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Matt Lauer Comes to the Defense of PR

It is interesting to watch and get a sense of the new Obama administration’s communications style, to see if some of the tactics that proved to beĀ  effective in campaign mode carry over to governing. So far, I am encouraged … Continue reading

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Obama, A Boon for Tech

They say all politics is local, my “neighborhod” is tech. I don’t want to appear to be myopic by focusing on just this aspect of the Obama administration amidst all the inauguration after glow. But let’s face it, the sector … Continue reading

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Did Team Obama Flub its First Crisis Communications Test?

Opinion columnist Kirsten Powers thinks so, as she wrote in her piece NY Post piece Bungling on Blago yesterday.  According to Powers: The Obama camp has managed to violate almost every tenet of crisis communications – starting with Rule No. … Continue reading

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