Posted At : October 21, 2009 9:35 AM | Posted By : name
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Ok. I don't want to nitpick, but surely the headline on this "Poacher Joins Gamekeepers" story from Forbes about a former Public Citizen activist joining the Food & Drug Administration as a policy advisor should be "Conservationist Joins Gamekeepers" or something similar. In any analogy in which the FDA is a gamekeeper, aren't the pharmaceutical companies the poachers?
Gene Grabowski, one of the best at what he does and a former head of communications for the Grocery Manufacturers of America, explains why hamburger manufacturers can no longer hide behind "compliance" when their products are linked to the kind of problems highlighted in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago. What he's too polite to mention (but I'm not) is that regulatory compliance is no longer sufficient in part because they industry lobbied for precisely the kind of lax oversight that leads to more crises and lost public confience.
A t lucid and well-argued riposte to the FTC's proposed blogger regulations from Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review. I think I agree with every word.
Kudos to Marks & Spencer--a perennially leader among the U.K.'s top ethical brands--for pulling its advertising from a Daily Mail story so full of hate, bile and ignorance it would not have been out of place on the Rush Limbaugh show.
The Wall Street Journal argues that Lazard got the communication around CEO Bruce Wasserstein's illness right in part because Apple got its communication around Steve Jobs so wrong. Says author Michael Corkery: "By being straightforward about Wasserstein's illness, Lazard is enabling investors to decide for themselves about the possibility of a leadership change at the storied firm."
The Atlantic's James Fallows, currently living in Beijing, is producing a series on Doing Business on China. His latest webisode deals with a topic that will resonate with public relations firms: keeping Chinese employees happy.
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