The hostage taking incident last week at Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, MD, (less than 10 miles from the White House in Washington) has quickly faded from the news pages. Yet a couple of notes regarding new media and crisis planning and communications are worth making.
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THE BEST CRISIS: THE ONE YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT
One of the best points in the recent NY Times article on BP, Toyota and Goldman Sachs http://nyti.ms/9KT2ck was the statement that organizations that handle a crisis well are rarely heard about.
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Mea Culpas and Apologies Can Be Too Little, Too Late
Thomas H. Graham, regional president of Washington, DC region utility Pepco, has had a rough few days trying to restore power since a mammoth summer storm caused hundreds of thousands of electric outages on July 25. Read more
Does the picture tell the story?
Front page of USA Today this morning, and just about everywhere else in the media: a “before” and “after” photo or video clip of the oil well deep in the Gulf.
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Unauthorized Leaks: If It Might Happen, It Most Likely Will
The U.S. Army has announced it is filing new criminal charges against a private who earlier admitted to leaking classified video of an Apache helicopter air strike in Baghdad in 2007 that killed 12 civilians including two journalists: http://nyti.ms/bihbyg Read more
War Rooms and Crisis Communications
Establishing a communications “war room” in a crisis is one of the first tactical steps to get on top of a fast breaking situation.
It’s essential to have a central place for a crisis team.
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The Gulf Oil Spill’s Battle of the Sound Bites and Science
We previously blogged on the BP analogy about trying to place a cap on the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Several BP spokespersons stated that placing the cap was akin to performing open heart surgery in 5,000 feet of water.
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Is The NFL Brand Bullet-Proof?
“Athletes Behaving Badly” isn’t a TV Reality Show yet, but it could be. The National Football League’s brand is like Teflon — unblemished — but could it be?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has had a lot of practice protecting his brand from crises of late. Read more
CRITICAL MASS OF CRISES
If you thought Toyota and Tiger were the crises for this year, they were only the appetizers for the menu that is May 2010. There are so many going on right now that most can’t even get to the front page of the traditional newspapers.
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The West Virginia Mining Disaster: A CEO’s Response
So far the responses from the Massey Energy Company related to the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia play right into the media’s need for winners and losers/victims and villains and will keep the issue in play longer. Read more