Day: June 27, 2003

Comical Ali or  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf as he is named is alive and well.  I am sure a sigh of relief will sweep over the PR community as our highest profile practitioner is back in circulation.

According to an interview with him he is planning on writing a book on the fall of the Ba-athist regime, however, if he has a sense of humour, and an eye for the commercial world, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until the: “Essential Handbook for Communicating in Difficult Times” hits the bookshelves.

Of course, he must be mortified that he was simply questioned and released.  It’s just so typical, they never give PR people the respect we deserve.

Postscript 1: Wow!! What has happened to his hair? I think some male hair color marketer has an opportunity there.

Postscript 2: The New York Post looks at the commerical opportunities for him.

Related Links: | The Daily Telegraph | The Washington Post | The Scotsman | Toronto Star | Reuters |

At least it is in Dilbert’s world….

Recently I posted about how blogs are not mainstream.  From talking with other PR professionals (not those who read this blog obviously) there is still widespread misunderstanding among our profession. This is a lifecycle issue.

A sizeable chunk of PR pros still don’t dig online communications, so it’s not surprising many of them don’t know what blogs are. Michael O’Connor Clarke was talking with PR students the others day and they had never heard of blogs.  That’s the norm right now, rather than the exception.

That doesn’t of course lessen the importance of blogs.  And it certainly doesn’t excuse us from understanding how blogs are indeed another media for us to interact with. But that is the reality.