Day: January 15, 2003

It’s been a bad couple of months for political PR people caught giving and taking bribes. In Bridgeport Connecticut, Leonard Grimaldi, a public relations consultant testified that he has provided Mayor Jospeh P. Ganim with “cash, fine wines, expensive clothing, meals at upscale restaurants, massages and fitness equipment” and in return Ganim would push contracts to Gimaldi’s clients.

Meanwhile over the past few months in Ireland, former government PR, Frank Dunlop has been testifying how he handed over cash in return for favorable planning applications.

Not good, not good at all…

Brendan O’Neill has an excellent piece on Spiked about how blogs are not going to change the face of journalism. It’s a well written piece and makes very valid points.

I don’t believe that blogs will change the entire media business, they are rather another piece of the jig-saw – not the whole picture…. Blogs are another line in our to-do lists…so to speak.

Having said that, certain blogs provide widspread exposure to online users and they need to be monitored and targeted by practitioners. Interesting to see that Jupiter Research now has blogs from its analysts online.

Thanks to Richard Bailey for the link to an interesting article in the Financial Times about how journalists have got on after jumping ship to the world of PR… of course it hasn’t all been plain sailing…

Phil Gomes is back among us… The Inlumient weblog has a link to a Publicity Primer