Communications Directors Pillows

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

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

Lynching on social media

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

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

'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?"

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"National security adviser"

"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!'

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

'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'

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

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

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

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

Under new blame.

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

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

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

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

Benedict & Associates: Communication Strategies, Lobbying. . .

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.'

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

'I want to discuss communication clarity.'