Category: PR News

Detroit Public Relations: An American Ghost Town Trying to Bury it’s Past 0

Detroit Public Relations: An American Ghost Town Trying to Bury it’s Past

Many have written about the decline of Detroit, one symbol of America’s industrial might, but news today reflects a much more grim future for the city, and Americans too. The city morgue is now being literally overrun with the bodies of the dead no one can afford to even bury. This last insult and injury to a once great city symbolizes an America in far worse shape than many understand. Detroit now resembles a post-apocalyptic spectacle where society and progress are distant rumors.

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Corporate Abuse of Facebook Photos Gets Employees in Trouble

Living a life that’s full, posting it to Facebook, and having it come back and bite you may seem like part of the game, but for some like Nathalie Blanchard, a sanctified Facebook might be a better choice. Getting busted by your employer because of your online photos seems somehow invasive. But then, posting one’s self all over the world does seem blatantly obtuse. What are the limits of liability and feasibility for handling personal data and content? Is it proper to stalk people across the web, or does being “social” come with its pitfalls?

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Demi Moore Photoshop PR Stunt

Strange pictures of Demi Moore emerge every now and again, making the actress a social media hit for a day. Today, a “Photoshop controversy” chops off a hulk of flash from her left hip. PR stunt or honest mistake?

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Bristol University Supports Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour has been unveiled amid support from Bristol University, where she works. What are the implications of having the Web’s most famous call girl working in their research department? Dr. Brooke Magnanti still maintains the blog, as well as a Twitter account which promotes it.

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The Peanut Butter Industry Needs a PR Boost

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed that some peanut butter producers knowingly made shipments of salmonella contaminated product during 2007 and 2008. Do the consumers still trust the industry?

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Wal-Mart Putting the Screws to the Competition

Wal-Mart has announced a financial plan to help their small and medium sized clothing suppliers. This kind gesture will send loans to Wells Fargo and Citigroup. What else is going on here? With all the company’s competitors on the ropes, has Wal-Mart come up with another greedy plan to capitalize on other people’s misfortune? Or, has is Wal-Mart, and companies like it, part of the cause of all this economic suffering? We had better watch their every move.