Monthly Archives: September 2019
Don’t Panic
Police Scotland came in for a fair bit of ridicule earlier this month by suggesting that the public should get ready for emergencies by preparing a grab and go bag. The Police recommended that the contents of the bag should include a notebook and pen, a first aid kit, a torch, a radio, batteries, bottled […]
The Ethics of the Press
In recent blog posts I’ve talked about ethics in Public Relations and about ethics in political life. The publication this week of the Ben Stokes story in the Sun raises the thorny issue of ethics in the press. The Sun has defended the story, claiming that it was a matter of public record and arguing […]
Too Many PR Own Goals in Football
Earlier this week the BBC annual Cost of the Game survey was published. It looks at the cost of tickets, programmes, pies etc across all four divisions of Scottish football. The headline, hardly surprisingly, is that fans are being overcharged and treated as cash cows by clubs. I am sure that the equivalent figures in […]
Politics & Ethics
In my previous blog post I wrote about the thorny subject of ethics in Public Relations and the dangers of a few bad eggs giving the rest of us a bad name. It got me thinking about ethics in public life, particularly in politics. I can’t help thinking that standards have most definitely changed over […]
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