As Communications Director for newly-elected New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, left, (Democrat), Darren Dopp was hitting a high point in his career and his life. He was by all accounts a respected PR guy who furthered Spitzer’s reign as Attorney General when he was riding roughshod over Wall Street, and he was key in Spitzer’s tremendously successful campaign for Governor. Politicos liked him, the press liked him, State employees liked him. He played hardball PR for the prosecutorial, self-righteous, take-no-prisoners juggernaut that is Eliot Spitzer but he was the Good Flack, with high marks for integrity, and advocacy of the boss’ agenda.
“He conveyed this sense of outrage and how cool a piece of evidence was,” said Brooke A. Masters, a reporter for The Financial Times, who wrote a book titled “Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer” – according to New York Times 7/25/07. “When he said, ‘This is really good’ or ‘This is really hot,’ it was,” she said.
osmosis and transference of cosmic thoughts through mind altering experience. The work of Biggles & Joy has permeated the work of dozens of breakthrough highly-recognizable PR campaigns in the past several decades. Thought to have disappeared with the aging and mental deterioration of Dr. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), psychedelic PR is being resucitated by social media devotees who seek ways to manipulate behavior through surreptitious Internet applications.
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More years ago than I care to recall Chet Currier taught me how to be a media relations professional. If you were pitching the business/financial news then Chet was a big target at Associated Press. He took the time to explain his beat, his criteria, and your real possbility of success with him (not high). No matter how young or green you were, Chet treated you like a professional. He was the same for PR people as he was for journalists, hence the tributes to Chet on 
It was breathtaking to see how fast the aging but still nimble Rupert the Wily stalked and mercilessly killed his prey, Dow Jones, with only a bare hint of blood on his paws. Rupert entered the lair with a dripping hunk of fresh meat ($5 billion), divided and conquered the dysfunctional Bancroft’s and this week came away with the trophy of a lifetime, enough to secure his crown as the greatest media big game hunter of all time. Seeing how entrenched, resistant and divided the Bancroft’s were to Rupert’s entreaties was a fascinating window into what has been ailing Dow Jones all these years. Dow Jones covers business but it was not being run as a business, or a vital media property. Expect that to change fast. 
According to reports from the BBC, the Times of London, and postings on several influential U.K. blogs, the Brits have succumbed to what was thought to be a very American affliction: PR obsession. Ali Miraj, an Asian businessman who is an unsuccessful politico, has accused Conservative party leader David Cameron of being 