Fleishman Hillard senior strategist, and expatriate Canadian, Dan Baxter recently completed an assignment in FH’s Beijing office before moving on to Brussels. In a sort of valedictory, he offers very useful guidance in the online publication PublicAffairsAsia on how to be an effective public affairs advocate in China. While the Chinese government may seem opaque [...]
You know, there’s something about all these CTV Senators that makes them hard to listen to or believe when they spin. I first noticed it with Jim Munson when he joined Chretien. No doubt that the PM’s overall communications improved, but whenever Munson himself tried to spin the government’s lines it sounded flat and unbelievable, [...]
One thing you learn very quickly in this business is that clear and consistent messaging matters. Now, in many cases a fumbled media line or careless off-the-cough remark may result in no more than a bad news day that goes by without much damage. But sometimes it can pave the way towards the dustbin of [...]
