Bob Pickard
Principal, Leadership Communication Inc. Public relations for newsmakers. 30+ year comms career @ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵🇨🇦🇰🇷🇸🇬 Served as CEO of Burson in Asia and North Asia of Edelman. Former MDB global comms chief. Publicized in PRC state media for “purely sensational hype.”
- During his long public life going back to the 1980s, one common thread is how Trump has actually been a master of PR. Not ethical persuasion, but for propaganda and publicity purposes.
- Bullshit corporate comms: “‘The Post is taking a number of difficult but decisive actions today for our future…These steps are designed to strengthen our footing and sharpen our focus on delivering the distinctive journalism that sets The Post apart and, most importantly, engages our customers.’”
- Confirmed: 1 in 3 Washington Post staffers are being "impacted," PR-speak for laid off, in this severe round of cuts. As Wolf Blitzer said just now, "it's a heartbreaking development."
- Bullshit corporate comms: “‘The Post is taking a number of difficult but decisive actions today for our future…These steps are designed to strengthen our footing and sharpen our focus on delivering the distinctive journalism that sets The Post apart and, most importantly, engages our customers.’”
- This looks interesting: “Some former BlackBerry employees are bringing back the idea of a physical smartphone keyboard, and they’ve dubbed the new phone the Communicator.”
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- Communication has never been more important to organizations than it is today. In that context, the communication of the leader has become paramount. And yet…
- Toxic, abusive communication – disrespectful and unbecoming. Another attempt to intimidate the media from asking legitimate questions. Sneer-and-smear trash talk might silence timid journalists, but it just doesn’t work on true professionals.
- There’s a fascinating new PBS documentary about the propaganda framing, media relations and narrative control behind the use of the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945 (and its aftermath)
