If ever there was a social cause in need of a public relations campaign, it is Thanksgiving. Sandwiched between the glitzy build-up for comparatively trivial Halloween and immediately followed by two months of the grossly commercialized Christmas season, Thanksgiving gets…
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Kids idolize ballplayers. In my Boomer generation, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax were true national heroes. Each region of the country with a team also had local favorites – Pete Rose in Cincinnati, Al Kaline in Detroit, Hank…
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Some people deliberately make provocative statements just to stir things up. Political talk show hosts do it all the time. Reality TV show “actors” do it. And so do writers, especially in this day when successful journalism is gauged by…
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There are three types of mysteries, or at least things we refer to as mysterious. The most obvious to come to mind are architectural wonders – the pyramids, Stonehenge, the Lost City of Atlantis. How – or, in the case…
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Take it or leave it, here are two bits of advice that come by way of 35 years as a public relations counselor and business owner. Do not offer professional counsel for free. Because, this diminishes its value and consequently…
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