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Though Valerie Bertinelli has said and owned up to things that had the potential to alienate her long-term and new fans (such as candid details of her tumultuous marriage, and the struggles she went through with self image and drug use), she has maintained a transparency that is uncommon among people in the entertainment industry.
comment | 03/05/2010
In a USA Today/Gallup Poll released this week, 55% of Americans polled said they felt Toyota took too long to react to the safety problems in several of its vehicles. Company spokesperson Mike Michels said, "We aren't surprised by the poll results...
comment | 03/04/2010
In a recent Huffington Post article, Grant Cardone asks whether or not PR firms are necessary anymore. Given the recent changes in the media industry and social media as a whole, this is a fair question. But all of those changes make me feel like PR firms are more necessary now than ever before.
comment | 03/02/2010
The tragic death of a trainer last week at SeaWorld brings up a tricky PR question: How do you convince visitors to come to a business by promising risks and excitement, but safety for everyone as well? No one is comparing SeaWorld to Jurassic Park, mind you. But a killer whale mauling an employee is not what families come to see.
comment | 03/01/2010
After NBC’s PR disaster in January, it seemed to me that the network’s ratings would suffer permanent damage. The showdown between Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, both vying for airtime position as host of the Tonight Show, became an embarrassing mud-slinging fight for an already struggling network. With various celebrities (like Rosie O’Donnell, Jimmy Fallon, and Roger Ebert) showing their support for O’Brien, and what seemed like a social media army behind “Team Conan,” only one media circus might be able to save it. The Olympics. And it looks like it has.
comment | 02/26/2010
