Why CEO Salaries are so High Read Part I and Part II. Important facts about CEO salaries tend to be ignored by the news media. The back-story, the realities of CEO compensation, are far more complex than what can fit into a 30-second series of sound-bites on the evening news, and the complexities are often [...]
May 21, 2009
Why the News Media Attack Corporate Executives Read Part I here. The reason for such outcry about CEO behavior is not because what CEOs do is arrogant – it just appears that way. It is not because their salaries are out of line – if that were the case, celebrities’ salaries, which are higher on [...]
May 20, 2009
The Story Behind Automaker CEO PR Disasters There’s nothing quite like a news story in which a corporate CEO is photographed in handcuffs. As the perceived pinnacle of global malfeasance, today’s CEO is widely vilified, and often for good reason. Or so it is assumed. Nothing illustrated the wide disconnect between CEOs and the masses [...]
May 11, 2009
Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back Read Part I, Part II and Part III. Good news was received last week. Patraw’s suit against the University was thrown out of court. The summary judgment is here. The judge agreed that Patraw’s allegations of what constitutes defamation – the same ploy she used against [...]
May 9, 2009
Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back Read Part I here. What happens when a victim/villain case isn’t black and white? What happens when the purported ‘victim’ is in fact the villain cloaked in victim’s clothing? These are questions Reno blogger Ryan Jerz* has had to consider. When the aggressor isn’t the [...]
May 22, 2009
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