Kennedy Tire Tracks on RFK’s Back: A New Loss of Family Dignity
When choosing a style of public critique about a family member's politics, be a Shriver, not a Kennedy.
Category Crisis Comms
Awash in Bias, ACEJMC Uni Accreditors Fail “Nonpartisan” Fact-Check
The ACEJMC university accreditation body for journalism, advertising, and PR is so compromised that a U.S. Department of Justice investigation is overdue to fix it.
Ethics-Embattled PRSA to Lose Another CEO as Financial Crisis Bears Down
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) quietly whispers news that the ethics-embattled PR association faces new turnover in its CEO position.
Has UK Suppressed Free Speech via Bait-and-Switch? Are PR Folks OK with It?
Has the United Kingdom launched a tragic descent down a free-speech-suppression slippery slope, from which freedom-loving UK citizens may never recover? If elected to the White House, would the Kamala Harris Administration seek to adopt similar “internet troll” incarceration powers…
Syracuse PR Students Get Advice from PR Guy Later Arrested at Syracuse
Syracuse's Newhouse School sent PR students for career advice from 5W's ethics-embattled Ronn Torossian. Months later, Syracuse arrested him.
U of Florida’s Ben Sasse Takes Higher-Ed Flimflam Out to the Woodshed
UF President Ben Sasse used strong, clear communication + policy that served to prevent campus violence. Other leaders should take note.
A Well-Deserved Message to Anti-Semitic Academia: “Job. No-Keep.”
In light of Fareed Zakaria's brilliant CNN editorial taking U.S. academia to task, you can't "PR" anti-Semitism. So let's not say stuff that suggests one can, or, much less, should.
What a Difference a Year Makes in Blount Memorial Land
"It’s been 13 months since I first called publicly for more than zero women to serve on my community’s hospital board." - @marybethwest
PRSA-NY to Jewish Community: #SorryNotSorry, We’re No Longer Sorry
In a self-made PR crisis of moral reversal, PRSA New York apologizes with an anti-Israel statement days after its pro-Israel statement.