Communication Coordinator Prints

'You haven't spoken to me in weeks!' 'I didn't want to interrupt you!'

Lynching on social media

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

"Peter's Joint Head of Communications."

'How fast can you hype?'

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

This Message Has No Content

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

'Fred, I want you to sanitize this, punch it up, dumb it down, leak it to the media and then be fully prepared to deny it!'

Even more of what people say (and what they really mean)

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

'What a CV - if you can write memos like this you'll go far in our organisation.'

Library - Political Science section - 'What to do until the spin doctor comes'

'Answer these constituents letters. Tell them to go to hell in a nice way.'

"He sits there all day waiting to chase the email man."

"So, what you're telling me is: I have unusually high negatives for a third-year husband..."

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

"Everything you say (or don't say) matters. Choose your words and intentions carefully."

Benedict & Associates: Communication Strategies, Lobbying. . .

"Harold, you've changed."

"Remember, if I can't introduce you it's because I can't remember their name - so that's when you step in and introudce yourself so we can get them to say it, okay?" - Company Party Prep.

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

"How's this for transparency: Our product isn't organic but our bullshit advertising it!"

"Ugh—someone in the group chat must have seen a squirrel."

Evolving Changes in Medical Lingo

Talk shows are great. Listen shows are even better.

'Everyone distrusts spin. . . so let's go back to old-fashioned lying.'

Target your message

"You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone?"

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

Nothing to say! Wouldn't wanna hear about it anyway!