Communications Manager Prints

"Wait, those weren't lies. That was spin!"

'We need another word for 'loss' that doesn't sound like loss.'

Public Relations: Today's Lecture: Weapons of Mass Deception.'

"'Massive power outage' will freak people out. How about, 'We're rebooting the entire East Coast'?"

'Sir, what comes first ??" the buzz or the spin?'

'it's either mass hysteria, or a very effective advertising campaign.'

"Hey, it's me. I just sent you a text message responding to your e-mail saying that I should IM you."

"I was rather hoping you'd be using incisive rebuttals based on an eclectic knowledge of the subject area!"

The Acme Agency: Dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of media exposure.

I'm sorry Charles is unavailable for polite comment.

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

"Were you going to say something, or were you just going to chew your cud?"

Lynching on social media

'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."

"Nope, I still only have one bar."

Dialogue

'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'

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

"....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."

Benedict & Associates: Communication Strategies, Lobbying. . .

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

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

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

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'