Archives for the 'Media and Journalism Issues' Category
Dutch Perspective vs. O’Dwyer
When I wrote about the Princeton Review and public relations on August 21, I was expecting some trackbacks or comments, since it was an interesting story. Nothing happened.
But I’d like to imagine that the folks over at O’Dwyer PR saw my post and decided to write something about it and they just forgot to link [...]
Headline decisions II
I’m not a particularly big fan of baseball, but I do pay attention to headlines. Now, I know that the Tribune recently “struck a historic deal to take over delivery of its smaller, struggling rival, the Chicago Sun-Times” (note the snarky “struggling”). But I suspect that there might be a deal involving headlines as [...]
Headline decisions
I know there was a lull in my blogging. I actually don’t know why. But here we go again. Fresh and new, after deleting nearly 1,000 spam comments that were held in quarantine. That’s what you get when you don’t blog for over a month.
This one’s short and to the point, however. I browsed my [...]
Classic tale of how not to approach blogger relations, and other news
This morning I read in a Dutch paper that the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam received a subsidy of 2 million Euros from the province of North-Holland. Just to renovate the hallways, bathrooms and coat room. How wonderful to see that in some countries, arts organizations do get the support they need from the government.
In other news, [...]
Stashed between the old joist walls
Ten points for whoever gets the title of this post. Today, the World Press Photo, an organization based in the Netherlands and the most prestigious photo competition in the world, announced the winner of its 2007 World Press Photo of the Year. Browse through the gallery and you will come across some of the most [...]
Snickers’ Super Bowl ad: homophobic or not?
I thought Snicker’s 2007 Super Bowl ad was the funniest ad of the bunch. But several gay rights organizations didn’t think so. I’m usually on par with the gay rights organizations, so what happened this time?
A press release by the Human Rights Campaign states:
“Three alternate endings to the commercial spot are posted on the Snickers [...]
Et tu, Mr. Wales?
“Jimmy, I love Wikipedia. It’s an amazing creation — one that I use every single day. Like you, I want it to be as accurate and objective as possible. I admire the fact that you strive tirelessly for these ideals.”
That’s how Scott Baradell over at Media Orchard describes Wikipedia in an open letter to Jimmy [...]
Updates and tidbits from Web 2.0 land
The New York Times reports on a Web site from Saatchi Gallery that allows art students to interact and share their art; a MySpace for artists. When I wrote my museum 2.0 entry, I had not heard of the Saatchi site yet, so it’s amazing how similar the ideas are. Even though the Saatchi site [...]
News releases: new school and old school
Edelman just introduced another version of Todd Defren’s original Web 2.0 news release, or social media release, and a tool to create one. It’s not very new or innovative and aesthetically it can be much improved. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that a large PR agency such as Edelman is rolling this stuff out. I expect [...]
The slippery slope of the election exit poll
As the election is drawing to a close in the Netherlands today, I read a news story earlier mentioning that Hans Laroes, editor-in-chief of the NOS, sent an e-mail to his colleague Harm Taselaar at RTL regarding exit polls.
RTL is planning to air the results of their exit polls 10 minutes before the closing of [...]
