Communications Professor Gifts

'I think it means corporate control is now complete.'

Incredible

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

Lynching on social media

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

'How fast can you hype?'

"Peter's Joint Head of Communications."

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

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

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"National security adviser"

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

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

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Dialogue

"Nope, I still only have one bar."

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

"Can you tell the oak tree to tell the birch tree to tell the elm tree I said hi?"

Changing Minds

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

'No, I'm the marriage counselor. What you need is the semantics counselor down the hall.'

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

'Some of these trees have been here for 2000 years... and they still can't talk. Man, we're awesome!'

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

'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!'

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

Lies/Damned Lies/Social Media

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

Ruddy bloggers!

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

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

Letter Collecting Nerd