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You have to be living on another planet to have missed the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. I have no idea if he’s guilty or not, but there are classic crisis management lessons to be learned from his media blunders:
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We’ve all been there, too many times. The world is coming to an end on all the news stations. Last winter, it was three to six inches of snow forecast for the Delaware Valley. NBC 10 tells viewers it’s ‘committed to seeing you through the storm.’ The KYW storm center begins providing updates eight times an hour. As for Action News, accu-panic sets in at the mere mention of nasty weather.
As a television news reporter for two decades, I spent my fair share of days panicking people about the threat of bad weather, especially snow. Snow is a green light for zealous reporters to blanket the region with live reports from highways that are not snow covered, but might be soon or from supermarkets packed with customers who fear the forecast will leave them stranded indefinitely with no ability to buy milk, bread and other necessities. Most reporters typically despise this obsessive approach to attracting viewers, but they have no choice. The worker bee must do what is assigned. [Read more…] about Making the moves to go from ordinary to extraordinary
Since it was announced that Lance Armstrong would sit down Oprah Winfrey to address the doping allegations against him, speculation among the media and the public has been off the charts as to whether the interview with the cyclist would begin his road to redemption. Or not. PR News asked Karen Friedman, who runs media training firm Karen Friedman Enterprises, to monitor and critique Thursday night’s part-one interview with Winfrey on her OWN network (part two will air tonight). Here’s Friedman’s scorecard:
[Read more…] about Op-Ed: To Armstrong, It’s Still All About Lance
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