The CommCore list of top Crises for 2010 has a few of the obvious candidates, plus one or two that represent a certain type of crisis vs. the biggest news or blog splash.
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Posts Tagged: media training
Keep Derek Jeter. Don’t negotiate in the press.
Why is it that smart people who should know better don’t know how to keep from washing their dirty laundry in public?
The last couple of days have been relatively quiet, but last week was an embarrassing time for all involved.
Communications/Negotiations Lessons from Ted Kheel
Noted labor lawyer and negotiator par excellence, Theodore W. Kheel, passed away this week. As the obituaries attest, for the better part of four decades Ted was the key connector between management and labor in New York City and in Washington.
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Mike Wise’s Unwise Spoof
Just because the term “Social Media” contains the “M” word doesn’t mean professional journalists in the Mainstream Media always know how to use it properly.
Case in point: On Monday morning, popular Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise intentionally posted a fabricated tweet announcing that Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games, rather than the initial six game suspension he received after allegations of personal misconduct.
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Jumping to Conclusions:The Importance of Context in a Sound Bite World
In every field there are teaching moments, and boy, do we have one right now in the communications and media arena.
Shirley Sherrod is an African American civil servant who heads up the Department of Agriculture’s rural development office in Georgia. Read more
Rolling Stone and McChrystal: Sucker Punch or Not?
The recent Rolling Stone article that got General Stanley McChrystal sacked as commander of US forces in Afghanistan has also raised an important issue about what it means to go “off the record” with a reporter.
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Lessons from the Helen Thomas Blunder
When Helen Thomas resigned as White House correspondent for Hearst newspapers earlier this month after more than 50 years as a front-row fixture at Presidential news conferences, it signaled more than the end of an era. Read more
Tiger and the White House Party Crashers
Tiger Woods was the best thing that happened this week to the still nearly-famous (will they soon become infamous?) Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the Virginia reality-TV aspiring couple who “crashed” the White House state dinner last week and didn’t show up when invited for Congressional testimony. Read more
Carrie Prejean – not a good moment for Media Training
Talk about programming and bad media training, Carrie Prejean gave a bad name to a serious craft last week in the interview on the “Larry King Show.” See YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R0a9xq6uek Read more