The power of perception should never be underestimated. Despite our best intentions, the human mind is incredibly prone to fallacies. Michael Shermer’s latest, The Believing Brain, convincingly explains the faulty natures of the human mind. Of particular importance is what Shermer calls patternicity, “or the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.” Shermer cites [...]
September 18, 2009
The sad aspect of downsized newsrooms means that news quality and breadth of coverage suffers. Along with this, as traditional news grapples with how to handle the social aspect of online media, the distortions of information occur to rampant degrees. Anonymous commenting appears to have become the sustaining mechanism of online advertising for many news [...]
September 1, 2009
I’ve been thinking recently about the generational gap, real or perceived, in social media use. I’m not sure it’s generational. I think it’s more accurate to say that being savvy with social media falls better into paradigm of literacy, such as public relations literacy, computer literacy and now, social media literacy. Age isn’t the gap-maker, [...]
July 18, 2009
I’ve heard PR people take issue with organizational objectives simply because it violated a personal belief. When that is the case, the PR person should find another job; conversely, if I were the CEO of an organization where a PR person had difficulty with the organization’s mission and suggested policy changes, I would be tempted [...]
June 19, 2009
Palin necessarily stood up for herself and her family in order to get to a resolution with Letterman.
November 15, 2011