Communications Directors Gifts

Foot Soldier.

'They're trying to save on their phone bill.'

"This position has become very important to the company."

'We invest so much money in training staff...it's a mystery to me why businesses would risk losing them.'

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?"

"National security adviser"

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"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

'The toughest things you have to deal with in this job, is feelings and lawyers.'

Dialogue

"Nope, I still only have one bar."

'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!'

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

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

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

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.'

'In my time, we didn't talk to a blackberry. We just ate the damn things!'

'The massive arrests have made the plans for downsizing much easier.'

Benedict & Associates: Communication Strategies, Lobbying. . .

'He doesn't like people walking in - try crawling.'

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

'I'd like to explain my ideas for economy within the company.'

"....So called 'fake news' is dangerous to our democracy!"

"We live in the golden age of fake news, alternative facts and spin control. Your resume is too truthful."

Under new blame.

Dogs reviewing organizational chart - 'Hunter can eat Spanky or Fido, Spanky can eat Spot or Duke,....' and so on.

Information...political rhetoric

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

'I want to discuss communication clarity.'