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Maneuvering in major political campaigns is all about public relations. This campaign for President has yielded some fascinating PR strategies that have worked at times and more often backfired.
Rudy Giuliani’s strategy to fashion a stump speech that characterized the people of New York as slovenly, out-of-control, criminal liberals bore him the intense animosity of the [...]

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Mandy Stadtmiller of New York Post is doing a story on drunk emailing just in time for Valentine’s Day. Apparently this is a real problem - at least a study reveals that finding.
Mandy seeks your best, funniest stories about drunk emails (can be one that you sent, one that you received) by noon tomorrow - [...]

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How do you get down in the fabric of the local community? How do you influence from the real grassroots, one-to-one? These are questions that rack the brains of marketers these days. The Internet is the great distribution pipe marketers and PR people could only dream about.  But hyper local marketing requires an authentic voice, tangible action that [...]

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POLITICS: Obama to the wire
With Obama handily defeating Clinton in three primaries yesterday (Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington state), the two Democratic party front runners have nearly identical delegate counts. That means that late-stage primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, May 20, Montana and South Dakota, June 3, take on huge importance. The front-loaded Super Tuesday did not anoint the [...]

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Thomas Jefferson is believed to be the first to coin the term “public relations.” It was 1807 during the seventh annual address to the joint session of the U.S. Congress. Jefferson faced rising aggressions with the British that would eventually lead to war and he was dealing with a “huge” budget of $16 million (that will [...]

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Journal on the move 
The Wall Street Journal is moving to midtown. Freeing Journal editorial staff the from the ghosts of the past, Rupert the Terrible is boldly going where the Bancroft’s dared not. Journal staffers will soon be under the News Corp. umbrella at company headquarters on 1221 6th Avenue (48th street), known as “the canyon.”
The Journal, which [...]

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