Category: Politics
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Democracy in action
Yesterday, a new president of Costa Rica was sworn in during a televised ceremony that was a model of the democratic process that you take for granted in western countries but not at all in most of Latin America. There are…
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Cabinet minister blogger promoted in reshuffle
Local elections took place in the UK yesterday and the governing Labour Party hasn’t done well at all. One consequence – the biggest Cabinet reshuffle in over a decade. The BBC website is a good place to go for detailed…
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The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen
Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics. The concluding point in my post…
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The Kremlin’s PR challenge
The Financial Times reports on a big task for any PR agency: Russia’s presidential administration has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Ketchum, a US-based PR firm, to advise on communications with western media during its G8 term, which started on…
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The real symbiosis between PR and journalism
It is a self-regarding conceit of journalism that we are the dogs for whom public relations furnishes the lamp posts, says John Lloyd writing in the Financial Times. In a jaundiced view of the relationship between journalism and PR in…