Posts Tagged ‘ journalism ’

Critical Mass

Biased news coverage of the G20 protests, and the brutal responses from police forces, offers examples of how effective PR can be bent as a deceptive tool against the People that it can otherwise faithfully serve[ READ MORE ]

Protesters vs. Police PR

At Toronto's G20 Summit, police repeatedly demonstrated overzealous reactions, but incredulously also allowed a minority of thugs and hooligans to create isolated spectacles for the largely impotent mainstream media coverage to spin into justification for more oppressive brutality. This now appears to be another classic case of propaganda methods playing themselves out again and again[ READ MORE ]

Bikes on Buses are a PR Bust

Torontonians haven't been encouraged to clearly consider how Cycling and Transit are becoming natural partners when longer distances need to be covered, and the viability of this Transit option remains under-developed. Of course, anybody who was waiting for the Press or Mainstream Media to illustrate why Car Culture and Conspicuous Consumption might not be in their best long term interests, would likely be indifferent at best on this subject....if not worse[ READ MORE ]

Bashing Bike Racks

Pausing for a moment to consider an alternative way of traveling, where instead of driving ourselves around in big empty cars and struggling to find parking at every stop, we instead saw ourselves enjoying the freedom of biking around our local destinations after piggy-backing on buses for the longer haul distances in between[ READ MORE ]

PR – Root Development

  • June 4th, 2010
  • Posted in PR

Marketers (and their PR Pros.) have yet to demonstrate many truly innovative uses for Social Media, much less actually or driving any remarkably new application development on these platforms...As yet[ READ MORE ]

KENK: Launching Into the Unknown

Now that Igor Kenk's assets and life as a bike "collector and mechanic has been completely liquidated by the results of his criminal prosecution, the general sentiment by those in attendance of his book launch is to first see how the factual accounts presented in his "Graphic Portrait" are received by the Public, and then take things from there[ READ MORE ]

Road Rage: An Escalating Cycle

The recent dismissal of criminal charges against former Attorney General Micheal Bryant might not have come as a surprise to most people who presumed that the best lawyers that money can buy would assure a favorable result for Bryant. What was a surprise though was how easily most people forgot that all of the news they received around his case was beign carefully crafted by the best Public Relations and Crisis Management that money could buy[ READ MORE ]

KENK: Our Property Isn’t Protected

The ongoing saga of Igor Kenk in his role as "Toronto's most notorious bike thief" holds many hidden lessons for all of us, if we're willing to look under the surface for root Causes, rather than simply adopting views of the visible Effects. Take for example our views on what it means to "own" something, and what the law actually says about our presumed rights to hold personal property[ READ MORE ]

KENK: Fitting Time with Crime

In poorly stacked systems of power, the Law sometimes leaves us feeling like Justice isn't always served...The saga of Igor Kenk as Toronto's "most notorious bike thief" provides us with multiple views on curing some of the Ills of Society... [ READ MORE ]

Ministry of Lost Bikes

After years of apparent apathy about bike theft in the city of Toronto, in July 2008 city officials, authorities, and law enforcement officers took on a suddenly very keen and marked interest with the famous arrest of Igor Kenk. Not only only showing resolve in the simple dispensation of their duty to investigate bike theft, [ READ MORE ]

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