Category: Television

  • Boris no longer the joker in the pack

    Who gets the last laugh? asks Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, in a summary yesterday of the campaign and result of the 2008 election for London mayor. As everyone now knows, Boris Johnson won the contest and officially takes…

  • Courageous decisions helped regain brand trust

    I watched a fascinating documentary on the Virgin1 TV channel last night – the story of the Tylenol poisoning crisis in 1982. Seven people died in the Chicago area after ingesting Tylenol Extra Strength capsules that had been deliberately laced…

  • Consequences for not having a blogging policy

    All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by. Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging. At least, that’s what it looked…

  • First report for MyRagan TV

    One thing I like about Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, is his willingness to dive in with new or different ways of communicating and see what happens when you experiment. I do that a lot, too, so we were…

  • My week in media

    A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online. I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged. So in the…