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Please Hire The Fox News Mole From Gawker
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Media, media relations, Media Training, Politics, Video on April 13, 2012
The Fox News mole only made $5,000 from Gawker according to a report by Mediaite.
Donald Trump and Miss Canada Controversy
Posted by TJ Walker in celebrities, Communications, Media, News on April 5, 2012
Jeremy Lin Winning Beyond The Box Score: Mike Bako on America Radio News Network
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Media, Press Room on February 21, 2012
1986 Mets Star Gary Carter Passes Away: Mike Bako on WOR Radio NY
Super Bowl Commercials Preview
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Media, Presentation Skills Training on January 31, 2012
Honda is winning the battle of the pre-Super Bowl commercial buzz by releasing its new commercial starring Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller.
By releasing this commercial early, and by having released a 10 second teaser before, Honda is cornering the market on word of mouth buzz.
Speaking To The Media: How Anyone Can Improve
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Media, Media Training, Presentation Skills Training, Press Room on January 31, 2012
Mike Bako on Fox Report: Tim Tebow’s Season Comes To An End
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Media, Media Training, Politics, Press Room, Video on January 16, 2012
Mike Bako wraps up a wild weekend of NFL playoff action on the Fox Report (1/15/12).
What does the future hold for Tim Tebow? Also, is this the last of Tebowing and Tebowie?
Is it Fair to Quote Mitt Romney on “Firing?”
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Crisis Communications, Debate Central, Government & Politics, Media, Media Training, News, Politics on January 11, 2012

There is a great deal of nonsense surround the fairness of quoting Mitt Romney saying “I like to be able to fire people.” Romney defenders scream that this quote is taken out of context and is horrifically unfair. But every quote in every newspaper, TV newscast and political ad is “taken out of context.” It is taken out of the context of a longer speech, interview or conversation.
The issue is whether it is taken out of context in a way that fundamentally distorts the meaning. If, for example, I said “children, you should never walk across busy streets without looking both ways.” And Newsmax quotes me as saying “TJ Walker says that children should ‘walk across busy streets without looking both ways,’” every fair-minded person would conclude that I had been taken out of context in such a way as to fundamentally distort and pervert my true meaning 100%.
Mitt Romney Set For More Battles In New Hampshire: Mike Bako on Headline News
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Body Language, celebrities, Communications, Government & Politics, Media, media relations, News, Politics, Video on January 5, 2012
Did Penn State’s Culture of Loyalty Allow Abuse to Flourish?: Mike Bako on WOR Radio
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Media, Press Room on December 18, 2011
A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn’t 100 percent sure it was intercourse.
Mike McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter in a Penn State locker room, said he believes that Sandusky was attacking the child with his hands around the boy’s waist. He also said there was no doubt in his mind that he fully conveyed what he had seen to two Penn State administrators now accused of lying to a grand jury about what McQueary told them.
Who Won The Republican Debate Last Night?
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Government & Politics, Media, Politics on December 16, 2011
The debate was a bit of a mixed bag with no clear-cut winners or losers.
Here is the breakdown:
FoxNews Rejects French Mitt Romney Ad
Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Media, media relations, Politics on December 14, 2011
My office just got off the phone with Erin Kelly, head of political ad sales at the Fox News Channel. She told us our ad “French Romney” was rejected because everything Fox airs “has to be truthful.”
No, I’m not making this up. 60 seconds after the call ended, Erin called back to clarify. She says our ad was rejected because it was “misleading.”
Really.
Because if it’s one thing we can all agree with, there would never be anything on the airwaves at Fox that a fair-minded person could construe as misleading. Read the rest of this entry »











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