Archives for Public Relations

On Labour, Ipsos MORI and the TPS... (October 2, 2007) This is one of those grumpy old curmudgeonly men blog posts that I kept reading on the web and never really understood until very recently. I'm just warning you so you can get out now. I have a long-standing grudge...

Ben Goldacre vs. Clarion Communications (September 1, 2007) A lovely piece in the Guardian today, although I'm going to link through to the full uncut version on badscience.net because it's more curvacious and has a nice bounce to it: "Jessica Alba, the film actress, has the ultimate sexy...

On being 'challenging' to PR people... (August 29, 2007) Some people have been having trouble working out why I've got so worked-up about this whole public relations thing. Perhaps this quote from a Flickr user called keeneypr on the thread about PR posted overnight will help explain to you...

This is not a brothel... (August 28, 2007) As has probably become clear recently, I'm currently not particularly well-inclined towards people who work in public relations - particularly the particularly unscrupulous ones that spam me with press releases and work ardently to try and persuade me to talk...