Bob Conrad | conradcommunications@gmail.com | 227 posts
Year four of the The Good, The Bad, The Spin is now a wrap. It’s been an ample year for taking on both top PR issues and many topics ill-addressed by mainstream media, and others. As always, this blog is committed to shooting through hype and moral plays in both the PR and news journalism [...]
November 27, 2010
Earlier this year, my friend and colleague Christel Hall hooked me up with Eric Schwartzman for an “On the Record” podcast. A few notes: Information presented in this interview was gleaned from a number of sources. The first was a story by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which had compiled records on the top water users [...]
November 19, 2010
My presentation for the Orange County Public Relations Society of America chapter from yesterday. Comments and questions are welcome below. Crisis Communications: Myths, Exceptions, Realities View more presentations from Conrad Communications.
November 15, 2010
Comments like these make me wonder if my profession simply refuses to play with a full deck, or is just incapable of doing so. Instilled in the public relations profession are many beliefs and assumptions about how business should be conducted. At the end of the day, we want things to be fine and positive; [...]
October 22, 2010
NPR was well within its rights to fire political analyst Juan Williams for his comments about Muslims. Doing so, contrary to criticism, was not censorship, nor was it an overt, reactionary PC stance. (Williams’ comments about political correctness were spot-on.) What it was, was an enforced policy by NPR to adhere to a journalistic standard. [...]
December 27, 2010