Media Expert Gifts

Squeezing the Free Press.

If I survive this, I'm reinventing myself as a television pundit.

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

Trial by Media

The Future: "Sorry, but I have to show you an ad now."

"There's no such thing as 'bad publicity'." "All traffic is good traffic."

In the Guru District

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

"They grow up so fast."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

'Desert island cartoons - and you?'

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

Create some buzz!

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

'If only every year was an election year.'

"...And do you Sean Spicer take Kelly Anne Conway..." "The marriage of alternative facts"

Gay Times...

BBC - Crisis Management, Damage Control and Liability Supervision.

Press Freedom

If nobody had invented graphics

'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!'

Studies show foods work miracles!

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

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

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

Changing Minds

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

"This just in: According to a recent poll, painkillers have replaced religion as the opiate of the masses."

'We interrupt this programme for a sex flash.'

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'