By Stephen Foster on October 12, 2012
You have to feel for new BBC director-general George Entwistle – no, not that way – who has walked into the biggest minefield the corporation has faced since Andrew Gilligan’s carelessly-worded (but true) allegation about Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell’s conning of the nation about the need to invade Iraq. Which resulted in the departure [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, BBC, Chris Patten, George Entwistle, Greg Dyke, Iraq, Jimmy Savile, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on August 27, 2012
There’s a formidable head of steam behind the forthcoming Paralympics in London and Channel 4′s launch ad (by in-house agency 4Creative presumably) is a vigorous piece of work – ‘Meet the Superhumans’ is hardly the stuff of most ads about disability. But do we really need the bit (only a second or so admittedly) showing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged afghanistan, c4 creative, Channel 4, Iraq, paralympics ad, politics
By Stephen Foster on May 18, 2012
Is this an opportunity missed? Here’s the new ad from TBWA Paris for Amnesty International showing Iraq/Afghanistan cruelties inflicted by Americans and then the same poor sap being brutalised by muslims. With a few shots of an African guerilla army tacked on the end. Making the point that all Amnesty’s donations come from the public, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News, Politics | Tagged 9/11, afghanistan, amnesty international, brutality, civil liberties, Franklin Roosevelt, fund-raising ad, George Washington, guantanomo bay, Iraq, JFK, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, muslims, Robert Peel, spanish inquisition, tbwa paris, waterboarding, western democracies, William Wilberforce
By Stephen Foster on February 14, 2012
It doesn’t seem that long ago that new business pitches were prepared the night before, often by dragging a reluctant creative team out of the pub. There would, of course, be a big research document but the hope (and often the reality) was that the client wouldn’t bother reading it. Not so in these advanced [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged afghanistan, amv/bbdo, Angela Merkel, army recruitment, british army, capita, Iraq, jwt london, ministry of defence, new business pitches, recruitment partnering project, redundancies, uk government
By Stephen Foster on December 20, 2011
Usually voluble and gossipy former tabloid editor (and cricket fan) Piers Morgan was patting back questions from the Leveson inquiry into UK media ethics with the straightest of straight bats today. No I didn’t know about phone hacking (he clearly did as did just about everybody else in Fleet Street, they just didn’t think it [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged cnn, daily mirror, fake photographs, Heather Mills, Iraq, Larry King, leveson inquiry, Paul McCartney, phone hacking, Piers Morgan, Shane Warne
By David O'Reilly on August 17, 2010
It must have seemed a bright idea at the time but it’s hardly surprising that Tony Blair’s decision to hand the £4.6 million advance and any profits from his autobiography to the Royal British Legion has attracted more criticism than praise. In typical Blair fashion the move has been handled in an ill-prepared, vague way [...]
Posted in News, Politics | Tagged Alastair Campbell, Bono, Iraq, Royal British Legion, Tony Blair
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