Category: Public Relations
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Do Not Let The Deep State Drag Us Into War
1) It’s coffee time, and the focus today is Iran and North Korea — proxies for John Brennan’s CIA. 2) The attempt to eat Venezuela alive is also an attack from the Deep State trying to take @POTUS down and enslave the world.The world. 3) It is this shadowy force that enlists, entraps, and pimps out the world’s children.…
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Combating Disinformation: An Essential Role For The Civil Service
We should use government funds for government-funded broadcasts, clearly attributed, that offer the official stance on matters of public interest or areas of misinformation or disinformation. Did you know that the U.S. government has an anti-disinformation service, that it’s called Polygraph, or that this website operates jointly with a Russian-language site called Factograph? Polygraph is…
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Notes on: “Bridging the Gap: Working with the Media”: A Federal Communicators Network/Partnership for Public Service Even
Privileged to attend and learn straight from the media about what federal agencies can do to help them do a better job reporting the facts. Federal Communicators Network/Partnership for Public Service event. Panel introduced by Virginia Hyer, FCN training coordinator. From left: Samantha Donaldson, PPS Director of Communications; Joe Davidson, The Washington Post; Alex Thompson,…
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QAnon and the Sociology of Knowledge: Lessons from An Interview Segment On C-SPAN
Here’s a neat partisan hat trick: present your power-enhancing ideology as the default, while portraying anyone who questions you critically as a dangerous political extremist by default. On August 10, 2018, C-SPAN featured a segment in which host Pedro Echeverría interviewed Ohio State University Assistant Professor Thomas Wood about the so-called “‘QAnon conspiracy theory and…
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A Father’s Day Warning: Kids Interpret Involvement As Love
Happy Father’s Day Weekend. On Sunday mornings in DC there are various radio programs dedicated to sermons. This morning on 94.7 FM, at about 6:50 AM EST, there was a pastor speaking about the importance of being involved with your kids at the play-on-the-floor-with-toys “boring” level (this got a laugh from me and his audience.)…
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Deconstructed Branding & The New Economy
I’ve been on Twitter a lot for almost two years now (@drdannielle), really thinking about what’s going on in our world and what I see and how I feel about it. And I guess, all this time, operating under the paradigm that if you’re doing something heartfelt you shouldn’t be asking for money for it.…
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Roseanne Barr Is A Truth-Telling Hero
What Happened On March 30, 2018, U.S. celebrity Roseanne Barr, speaking from her Twitter account (@therealroseanne), stated: “President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him…
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You Don’t Need To Be A Ruthless Jerk – Do You?
A colleague and I had disagreed many times, but on this point we both nodded: Most executives are ruthless. Statistics can’t validate personal observations. But here is some data: A 2015 survey of consumer trust levels worldwide by the public relations firm Edelman found that “the number of trusting countries fell to the lowest level ever recorded.” A 2015…
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Can A Song Take Down ISIS?
A few months ago the New York Times ran an article about the USA’s struggle to combat ISIS as a brand. It emphasized the failure to coordinate communication effectively, but I didn’t see that either as the problem or the cure. To me it’s a matter of military strategy, and policy. I would blow their freaking heads off. There…
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Question-Based PR: A New Paradigm
It is by now well-established that standing on a soapbox and yelling at the public does not work. It does not make people trust you. Even if you’re Winston Churchill. So what does work, now? The answer used to be “reliance on influencers.” But, to take just one example, polls show that people don’t trust…