Tag Archives: Social Media
Say Hello to 2024
Happy New Year to One and All. So, what does 2024 have in store for us? Starting off with the world of communications and PR, I think it will be interesting to see what happens with Twitter. I know that we’re all supposed to call it X nowadays, but I don’t know anyone who does. […]
Behave Yourselves!
What is it about us that we seem to have forgotten how to behave like decent and civilised human beings? There have been several media reports this week about theatre performances being disrupted by badly behaved audience members. The Police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard in Manchester when a punch up […]
Papering the Cracks
Last week Jeremy Paxman received an Outstanding Contribution award from the Royal Television Society at their TV Journalism Awards. Paxman used his acceptance speech to give a characteristically idiosyncratic rant on the current state of journalism. What Paxman seemed particularly worried about is the fact that many areas of our public life, such as council […]
Be Nice to Each Other
When did we all stop being nice to each other? The scenes outside the Conservative Party Leadership hustings in Perth last week were truly shocking. Peaceful protest is perfectly fine, but throwing eggs at pensioners as they made their way into the meeting was completely unacceptable. It was also distressing to see the protestors in […]
Paper Cuts
I’ve frequently mentioned in these blog posts the alarming decline in print sales of newspapers and I make no apology for doing so again now. I was sad to read earlier this month that daily print circulation of The Scotsman has now fallen below 10,000. It’s even more depressing to note that less than 5,000 […]
Let’s Be Nice to Each Other
Last week the BBC reporter Sarah Smith caused much debate with her comments about leaving her post as Scotland Editor to head up the BBC’s news operation in the USA. She said that she was glad to be departing Scotland because the political scene is full of “bile and hatred.” Leaving to one side for […]
Facebook Failings
This has not been a good week for Facebook. First of all they had to suffer the embarrassment of going offline for six hours on Monday. That was quickly followed by ex Facebook employee Frances Haugen telling a Senate hearing that Facebook deliberately targets children. The first of these events didn’t impact that much on […]
Check Your Media Diet
Like a lot of people who work in PR, I spend quite a bit of time trying to work out where the audiences I am trying to communicate with get their news from. There is no doubt that 16 months (and counting!) of Covid restrictions has changed the way in which we consume media. There […]
The News is The News
I can’t help thinking that the events of the last couple of weeks have proved Marshall McLuhan’s assertion that the medium has become the message. It seems to me that many of the stories dominating the headlines recently originated not from politics or from commerce but from the media itself. The most high profile example […]
Changing Times
Like most people, I find myself having quite a lot of time to think these days. One of the thoughts that has recently crossed my mind is that I have now had a Twitter account for ten years. The world in 2011 was clearly a very different place. Phrases that are now part of our […]
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