BP– what can you say?

I have resisted writing about BP and the oil spill disaster, but after talking to a member of its pr firm’s team yesterday, I think it’s time.  This London-based person (we share another client) seemed exhausted, frustrated, and frazzled.... 

Cobs and Robbers and the Post

There’s a robbery-gone-wrong article on the front-page of today’s Washington Post that is so juicy you have to check it out.  First, it has incompetent criminals, all with prison records, conspiring to rob someone who couldn’t have... 

Chertoff, Boby Scanners, and what’s left of the Wash

You would have been hard pressed to have missed former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff over the past week, appearing on about every news talk show in America about the need for full body scanners in the wake of the Christmas airplane bombing... 

Debate over Tiger’s Tactics

I know,  I thought I had written my last post on tiger’s difficulties, but an article in today’s Washington Post has prompted one more shot.  The article quotes my good friend, former White House co-damage control team member, and public... 

Trouble at the Wall Street Journal

I’ve always loved the Wall Street journal, and going back to the days of Jonathan Kwittny and, in more recent years, Glenn Simpson, have thought it has had the best investigative reporters in the business.  I still get the paper delivered to...