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Is Google making you dumb? – Fox and Friends
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Debate Central on May 16, 2011
TJ Walker debates Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy about the effect search engines like google.com have on the youth of today.
Keith Olbermann catches Neil Cavuto committing “Racisim on a Scale”
Posted by TJ Walker in advertising, Analysis, Audio/Video Technology, Authors Corner, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language, celebrities, CEOs/Financial on December 16, 2010
Earlier this week, Neil Cavuto had a cow that Chris Matthews commented negatively on how fat NJ Gov. Chris Christie is. Cavuto called it ‘racism on a scale,” which I think is one of the most awkward and funniest PC phrases of the year.
Olbermann, to his credit, did a little digging. It turns out that Cavuto is perfectly fine making fun of fat people, as long as they are Democratic appointees, and not Republicans. Looks like it depends on whose ox, or fatten calf, is being gored, when it comes to Cavuto’s selective outrage.
Roger Ailes apologizes for “Nazi” remark
Posted by TJ Walker in Crisis Communications, Media, public relations, reputation management on November 18, 2010
Just hours into the mini-scandal, Roger Ailes apologized to the anti-Defamation League.
As noted here earlier, this “Nazi” attack was very atypical of Ailes. However, his swift apology to the ADL and getting the story out within hours of the initial story breaking is classic Ailes-the-political-consultant. Ailes may have flubbed with his initial comments, but his damage control was brilliant. By acting so quickly, he kills the story and he makes anyone who raises the story look like an uncouth bully who can’t accept an apology. Ailes has effectively killed the story and will live to fight many more battles at Fox.
Megyn Kelly completely loses it on air. Is this a credibility crusher?
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Media, Uncategorized on November 12, 2010
Nope, it just makes her more human and likable. those of us who do lots of live TV and radio have at all started laughing uncontrollably from time to time–there’s no great shame in that. Megyn has generated lots of interest in who she is and what she does–that’s something that long-time media icons like Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer have figured out how to do for decades and decades. And it they all have long-term staying power, even when they make blunders.
Sarah Palin doesn’t want to talk to any non-Fox media
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, celebrities, Communications, Government & Politics, public relations on November 6, 2010
Mediaite has a fun little story on how Sarah Palin told Shep Smith that she doesn’t really want to talk to any media unless it’s Fox. Is this a smart strategy? For someone who wants to be President? Or at least wants to be seen as someone who could be President?
Well, it seems to be working for Palin. Her constant snubs of, in her words, “the lame stream media” is only serving to endear her more with her conservative, Republican base. Furthermore, she’s in the mainstream media every day as the most-talked about politician in the country. So not talking to the media isn’t cutting off the stories about her.
The war between fox and Cablevision is over. who won?
Posted by TJ Walker in advertising, Analysis, Audio/Video Technology, Communications, Government & Politics, Media, Politics, public relations, reputation management, Sales and Marketing on October 31, 2010
Judging by the bleating from Cablevision that it had to pay “unfair” rates, I’d say that Fox “won,” in the sense that it got a price closer to what it wanted. The interesting point for me was how little outcry there was by the public here in New York City. No one seemed suicidal; there was little gnashing of teeth. Congress and the regulators were content to stay out. the lesson for both News Corp and Cablevision is this: your customers aren’t as addicted to you as you think.
Dolan striking another sour note for NY sports fans
Posted by TJ Walker in advertising, Analysis, Body Language, celebrities, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Media, media relations, News on October 28, 2010
by Mike Bako
For many New Yorkers the name James Dolan has become a curse word. His ownership of Madison Square Garden, The New York Knicks and Rangers has resulted in over a decade of overspending, mismanagement and fan apathy. If that was not reason enough for NY sports fans to hate everything he has come to stand for now subscribers of Cablevision, the cable company Dolan owns and is subscribed to by over 3 million New Yorkers, is holding the World Series ransom buy not agreeing to carry the Fox Network.
Don’t get me wrong, there is not really a rooting interest here., Billion dollar companies are fighting over hundreds of millions of dollars with the average fan being left to stand at the window with our noses being pressed against the glass. Scratch that, we are staring through the window while men like Dolan and Rupert Murdoch of Fox rub our noses in their own greed.
This is nothing new from the likes of James Dolan and will only add more fuel to the fire of hatred that burns in the hearts of most New York sports fans for him.
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