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4 items that caught my eye today as I scanned my feeds:
- The wonderful and wise Gerry McCusker notes that the PR industry world-wide has gone crashingly quiet after all the rhetoric about ‘honesty, openness, trust and disclosure’. Two of their own get sent to jail and what do we hear from the leading bodies? Nothing. Hat tip to Trevor Cook
- Howard mouths off about Obama’s intention to pull troops out of Iraq and Obama makes a complete fool of him, pointing out that if Little Johnnie was soooo keen to help out his mate Bush, he would actually send over more troops and put them in the front lines, rather than in non-combat roles. Not that Little Johnnie has ever made a fool of himself before — I’m thinking ‘Child Overboard’ as one amongst many (but the electorate trusts the way he and his team have managed the economy, which is a completely different thing, and they’ve done very well at that)
- John Edwards misses the opportunity to point out the difference between personal freedom of speech and the ‘company line’ that employees working for him are expected to tow. As Allan says, what he should have said was “I don’t give a damn about what my employees write on their personal blogs in their spare time. Those are their blogs. If you want my view, read my blog. Don’t f… with my employees.”
- Allan (and many others) notes that the IOC intention to ban blogs is stupid and myopic. Who is going to try and stop athletes from blogging under assumed names, or shoving videos up on YouTube? What are they going to do — ban internet access (even wireless) from the various locations? Ever heard of cellphone cameras? You know, like the one that captured Saddam’s hanging and propagated it as a massive viral phone video in Iraq? The genie is out of the bottle; you can’t put it back no matter how much you might wish you could
Oh, and before anyone jumps up and down, complaining that I shouldn’t start a sentence with a numeral, I know. It was done for dramatic and graphic effect — the big ’4′ grabbed your eye, didn’t it?
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I’m sure Edwards wasn’t personally involved in hiring his bloggers, but c’mon… Whoever failed to search their names online deserves the axe. Everyone is entitled to express an opinion which is free from governmental consequence — private business is another matter.
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