March 09, 2009
As news outlets fight over who will interview boating accident survivor Nick Schuyler first, it sparks a question: Who would you pick, if the world’s media were beating at your door? Considering Florida’s habit of sparking national media stories, you may face that choice sooner than you think. H...
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February 16, 2009
There have always been high-profile "crisis manager" publicists; the guys (or gals) you call when a well-known person lands in serious trouble, whether it's Michael Jackson accused of child molestation or O.J. Simpson accused of murder. These were the folks who figured out how to handle th...
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February 11, 2009
Martin Belam joins the debate about whether the PCC needs reform with a little case study from the Daily Mail: "Quite how publishing pictures of a named 13 year old in her school uniform and inviting readers to discuss whether she looks like a slut or not squares with ... the PCC code of conduc...
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February 04, 2009
Let's first get one thing straight: Bernard Goldberg is mostly full of it. I felt that way after reading the former CBS News reporter's first book allegedly documenting enormous media bias toward liberals, Bias -- which felt a bit more like a series of bitter justifications for why he wasn't a bigge...
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January 27, 2009
Consider this number for a moment: 4,500. That's the number of media credentials issued for Sunday's Super Bowl, according to Tampa Bay and Co., Hillsborough County's version of the convention and visitors bureau. It's the second-largest media cattle call in Super Bowl history, drawing representativ...
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January 25, 2009
I am not willing or able to say that the following 91 blog posts about social media, blogging, new media, social networking, etc, are the definite top-91 posts because I didn’t have the time or attention to go through all of my 5,437 blog posts over on chrisabraham.com: (more…) Related P...
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January 19, 2009
As someone who has written for many years about the need for racial equality in our politics and our media, Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday presents a wonderful quandary. It's tough to avoid the celebratory tone drenching the media these last few days, from the soaring inaugural celebration tele...
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January 08, 2009
When I first saw a news account citing Kawasaki disease as a possible cause of Jett Travolta's death, my journalism Spidey Sense started tingling like crazy. You see, my son suffered from Kawasaki as a toddler. It was a painful, frightening ordeal, in which he suffered a high fever and his extremiti...
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December 29, 2008
* So I'm sitting in my office at 8 a.m., watching ex-Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson explain how fame turned him into such a pig that he obliterated a multimillion-dollar career as a teen idol on VH1's latest exercise in celebrity degradation, Confessions of a Teen Idol. And I'm smiling. That's the eff...
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December 15, 2008
There has been a lot of controversy lately over sponsored blog posts and how it affects the integrity of bloggers who accept money in exchange for posting about a company. This began on Saturday when Chris Brogan, a highly respected member of the social networking community posted on Twitter that he...
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