public relations

I'll leave it to the residents of the great state of South Carolina to decide whether their governor remains in office, and to the governor's wife to decide whether the marriage continues.

But, as a partner in a large public relations firm, I have no problem saying that the governor's communications team should be fired immediately.  Lying, which is clearly what they did over the past week when they said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail, simply and unambiguously is not acceptable.

And if they were lied to, that is, if they were deliberately told incorrect information, they should all resign by noon today as a matter of principle.

Actually, they should have submitted their resignations yesterday.

I knew, but I didn't really know.

Jeff Birnbaum has an item in his Washington Post column this morning that deserves some serious discussion:

Even a PR guy (my day job) like me is truly impressed by what Greenspan's publisher has been able to do to launch his book.

Front page stories in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post on Saturday, a interview on 60 Minutes Sunday night, an interview on the Today Show on Monday morning that was simulcast and CNBC, a separate interview with CNBC senior economics correspondent Steve Liesman, a special with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC Monday night, and on and on and on and...