Astroturf wars
There’s a piece in Politico.com examining the ‘astroturfing’ that has now become a rampant part of American politics. Hard to disagree with the story’s general thrust, that the lobbying process is...
View ArticleWhere was PR during the Wal-Mart coverup?
I won’t bore you with the details of the case being reported today by The New York Times, which features a six-year cover-up of corruption in Wal-Mart’s Mexican operations, but I will take a moment or...
View ArticleWal-Mart wasn’t “working diligently” on FICA compliance, it was working to...
A couple of days ago, I was inclined to cut Wal-Mart’s PR department some slack, because most of the folks leading the department were not around when the original decision to cover-up corruption in...
View ArticleWhat the “age of transparency” looks like, on both sides of the Atlantic
It’s a long time since I started using the phrase “age of transparency” in an attempt to persuade senior managers that they needed to conduct business on the assumption that everything they said and...
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