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Posts Tagged: crisis communications
The NFL’s Evolving Player-Suicide Crisis
This weekend’s tragic murder suicide by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher underscores several linked issues that are increasingly relevant to the National Football League as a whole:
· As the 4thsuicide among NFL players this year, and the 6th in the past two years, it’s clear the NFL has a growing problem with guns and violence on its hands.
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“Spirited” Marketing
Spirit Airlines sent me this email coupon today playing off the controversyinvolving David Petraeus, General John Allen and others.
Wow. You would think that only a few months removed from their firestorm over refusing a refund to a dying veteran, Spirit would hold the line on this type of promotion.
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Super Storm Sandy, the Web and Travel Web Sites
Hurricane Sandy has wreaked havoc on all aspects of life in the North East. Everyone at CommCore is safe, although we all know someone with significant property damage.
One interesting measure of the storm and social media is how business-like and fact-based transportation companies – airlines, trains and buses — have been in their communications. Read more
James Burke, Johnson & Johnson
I’m not sure if it’s ironic or coincidental that James Burke, former Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, passed away on the 30thanniversary of the Tylenol poisonings. The obituaries correctly state his role in leading the company through the crisis.
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Ears Are Everywhere
Loose Lips Sink Ships
The latest dust up in the presidential campaign revolves around a secretly recorded video clip of Mitt Romney during a “private’ campaign appearance. With almost 130 million smartphones in the USA, all the world’s a stage.
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BPI’s Beef
Last week Beef Products, Inc. (BPI), the makers of what the beef industry calls “lean, finely-textured beef,” notoriously known to most of the public as Pink Slime, filed a major anti-defamation lawsuit against ABC News. Read more
#NBCFail
The 2012 London Olympics are some of the most financially successful games for NBC and sponsors alike. Ratings are peaking at 35 million viewers for prime time. Even archery scored 1.5 million viewers during daytime on a weekday. Read more
A New “Tobacco Moment”
When a respected publication like The Economist proclaims a scandal as global finance’s “tobacco moment,” you know it’s not referring to your average PR-crisis. The furor over Barclays’ alleged LIBOR interest rate fixing is not likely to go away anytime soon for two reasons, both of which should give finance execs pause:
• Experts agree that Barclays represents only the tip of the iceberg. Read more
No “Crash and Burn” In This Case
The back-to-back car accidents involving Secretary of Commerce John Bryson this past weekend could have ended up burning the fingers of an Obama administration already trying to manage the President’s “private sector is doing fine” PR-fire. Read more