http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com Commentary on the news media and crisis communications Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:46:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s a typical day at your desk and…You are dreading that formal performance review with your assistant.You are having a hard time focusing on that report that’s due next week.The numbers on that spreadsheet are swimming before your eyes.You are nodding out with your fingers on the keyboard. The phone rings ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=20 The loss of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver is like a death in the family.  It’s the missed conversations, the lost holidays and the sense that something is not there that should be there.  You feel this deep sense of loss months after the death of a parent, sibling, ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=18 It’s tough to be the official spokesperson when a crisis strikes an organization.  Emotions always run very high when something really bad happens. That was never more evident than in the case of Denise Tyrrell who was the spokesperson for the Metrolink commuter rail system in Southern California.  On the ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=17 The sad, shameful and sudden fall of Eliot Spitzer is grist for so many mills that it will defy the 24 hour news cycle; the commentariat will grind away on the private and public agony of the disgraced crusader longer than your average scandal.  It is just so rich with ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=16 Major League pitcher Roger Clemens invested more than four hours of his time before a Congressional Committee denying the use of performance enhancing drugs.  About a week later, his former teammate and friend Andy Pettitte spent less than an hour talking to the media about his admitted use of Human ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=15 The traditional news media are in turmoil.  The old line distribution platforms- print television and radio, are struggling in the business office and in the newsroom.  The people responsible for the bottom-line are desperately trying to recalibrate their business models and the folks in the newsroom are just as desperately ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=14 The Colorado Rockies had an amazing run through the Major League Baseball playoffs before falling in four consecutive games to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.  What wasn’t so amazing was the public relations mess that the team created in selling tickets to the World Series games that ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=13 You know the story.  The Idaho Senator pled guilty to charges stemming from a sex sting operation in an airport men’s room.  The lid stayed on that story for a couple months until the news was broken by a guy who spends his time outing public figures he believes are ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=12 Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick says he’s sorry.  He’s sorry he lied to National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell.  He’s sorry he deceived Falcon team owner Arthur Blank.  He’s sorry he let down his teammates, fans and even kids who might view him as a role model.  And he’s sorry ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=11 What a performance it was! Destined to become must-see-viewing in every crisis communication consultant’s training seminar. Bob Murray is the owner-operator of the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah where six miners have been trapped 1500 feet underground since the mine collapsed before dawn on Monday morning.    Murray violated every canon of crisis ... http://www.rockfordgrayblog.com/?p=10