Ask any PR person and they’ll tell you they can spot a novice or untrained media performer in the first few seconds of a radio interview. Our ears are finely tuned after years of providing advice to clients on the do’s and don’ts of the interview. My own PPP (personal pet peeve) is the interviewee
A few weeks ago, my colleague Michelle wrote a blog on the communications fiasco which was the Household charge. You’d think the Government would have learned a few lessons since then but events in recent days relating to the installation of water meters suggest otherwise. Indeed all of the signals to date are of two
Did you hear the one about the lucky Irish person who won a new Mercedes by simply liking a Facebook page? You might not have but it’s worth looking at the spoof competition run by Denis Mahony Motors on Friday 30th March as there are some important lessons in social media management to be learned.
You would need to be living on Planet Zog for the last month not to be aware of the introduction of the €100 flat household charge, as a precursor to a more proportionate household property charge in a year’s time. For that time at least, the political opponents of the measure have been banging on,
The announcement by RTE Director General, Noel Curran that he is has instituted a full editorial review of some programme-making practices is welcome. It would appear from media reports that the focus of the review will be the production of live, audience-based programmes and how such audiences are assembled and prepped for their Andy Warhol-prescribed “fifteen