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For those of you who, like me, have been following the missing Caylee case, you can’t help but notice that the lawyer for the mother involved keeps stating that her story is being “tried by the media and in the court of public opinion.”
But really, in a world where we now have breaking news [...]

For the past six months, not a day has passed where news about Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has not dominated the local headlines.  And, I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone, anywhere who is not familiar with the ongoing saga revolving around him and his problems.  As a public relations professional, I [...]

Who says viral marketing won’t work for you? Our friend Christian the Lion made it onto The Today Show, all because of a cute viral video that made its way around the Web. There’s a lesson to be learned here. Well, more than just “a pet’s love is forever.” Viral marketing works, and just may [...]

Whatever you think of it politically, the recent Barack Obama tour of Iraq and Europe was media relations at its finest. Compare this with the tours that John McCain has made to Iraq and Afghanistan, which flew under the media radar to a large extent, and you see a stark difference with respect to each [...]

The effects of the recent boom in the Michigan film industry are tangible. Local business owners, like Royal Oak barber Ted Widgren, are even being “discovered” by such notable Hollywood personalities as Clint Eastwood, who asked Mr. Widgren to act as an extra in his film Gran Torino, which is being filmed in suburbs around [...]