Monthly Archives: May 2013

As our nation’s leaders, academics and comics travel out to deliver commencement addresses, several good ones from this year, and past years, circulate on the internet — something few, if any, graduation speakers predicted in the 1970s would exist by now. … Continue reading →

Anthony Weiner, when last we checked, remained fodder for brilliant tabloid headlines. From the New York Post: “Weiner Exposed,” [subhed: “Battle of the Bulge”] heralded his downfall in 2011 when he apparently texted a picture of his apparatus to a … Continue reading →

The low-hanging-fruit topic for a post on crisis management today would be the fire on the Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas, which thankfully did not hurt any of the 3,000 passengers and crew. The cruise ship industry is in … Continue reading →

Abercrombie & Fitch and its brash CEO Mike Jeffries really have a crisis now: The company announced Friday that sales went down 17 percent for the quarter. While sales tanked in part before a renewal of the controversy over remarks … Continue reading →

Now it’s my turn. Is steveoncrisis now steveincrisis? Only in a small way — but it’s a good lesson. One of the key rules of reputation management is that everyone will eventually encounter a situation where they are in the news … Continue reading →

If you must report bad news, you can’t do much worse than hitting a journalistic trifecta of sorts, as the U.S. military did today with a report that estimates there were 26,000 sexual assaults last year in the four service … Continue reading →

In recent weeks, Americans’ attention focused on the Boston bombings, blizzards, floods and wild fires and, if their eyes looked overseas, North Korea’s threats and the Syrian civil war catastrophe. But the April 25 collapse of a Bangladesh textile factory … Continue reading →

CNN’s last few weeks had to hurt. First its on-air reporters jumped the gun on arrests in the Boston bombings. Now media critic Howard Kurtz had to apologize for careless reporting and faulty thinking involving Jason Collins, the NBA player … Continue reading →

Mountain Dew’s demographic won’t get caught watching the evening news, reading a newspaper or even sharing meal pictures on Facebook. But that’s no excuse for the Pepsi division’s latest ad, which on its surface is racist — and we could … Continue reading →