Press Liaison Prints

"We've won control of the congress. Our next objective is to win control of the media."

Trial by Media

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?"

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

This Message Has No Content

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

'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!'

'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)

Signs: Sales, Profit and Media coverage.

Public Relations: Reputations cleaned and repaired

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

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

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

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

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

"Ugh—someone in the group chat must have seen a squirrel."

Newspaper suicide.

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."

"You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone?"

"How's this for transparency: Our product isn't organic but our bullshit advertising it!"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

"Here are today's leading factoids, and I'm Skip Shumaker, spoon-feeding them to you!"

'Mr. President, I have a question, where's the mens' room?'

Free press.

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."