Tag Archives: Media

Fandom Politics

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Will Moss

When do the old rules of political communication become obsolete? Note: There are two things that have been on my mind as I observe everything happening in U.S. politics right now. I am using this space to think through them … Continue reading →

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We Can Character-Assassinate You for Wholesale

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Will Moss

The long tradition of shady PR knife work in dark alleys A few years ago, I had the exquisite experience of having my emails read back to me by lawyers.  There had been a snafu involving disclosure of financial information … Continue reading →

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Who Wants to Be On the Death Panel?

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Will Moss

PR thoughts on the murder of an insurance man Two weeks ago, Brian Thompson, CEO of big health insurer United Healthcare, was gunned down in New York. This created an epic amount of Discourse on social media, aggravated by the … Continue reading →

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Imagethief is Dead! Long Live Imagethief

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Will Moss

I surrender to the inevitable, plus a state-of-the-newsletter update In 2004, in one of the great over-reactions of my life, I moved from Singapore to China because I was bored. This was a giant adventure and a hazardous level of … Continue reading →

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Always Check the Link!

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Will Moss

Everything on the Internet is bad or porn until proven otherwise. Oops! CNN.com: Toy manufacturer Mattel has apologized after mistakenly printing the web address of a pornographic site on the packaging of its newly launched “Wicked” dolls. Instead of pointing readers … Continue reading →

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Valley of the Dinosaur Rockers

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Will Moss

A heady mix of raw sexual energy and whiskey marketing In retrospect, the mistake was going to a concert in Concord on a Thursday evening. We live in Redwood City and the 50 mile rush-hour drive to Concord took us … Continue reading →

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Life, Death and Radio

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Will Moss

  News today that longtime San Francisco music station KFOG is no more. It’s going to drop music and switch to simulcasting sports-talk from KNBR. Gen-X Bay Area natives, like me, may remember KFOG as one of the seminal music … Continue reading →

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Adventures in audio tape

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Will Moss

Yesterday Bloomberg ran what was essentially a PR piece for Ballfinger, a German maker of rarefied audio equipment, including reel-to-reel stereo tape decks that start at $11,000. The thesis: reel to reel is making a comeback. This is of course a bullshit … Continue reading →

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Godzilla vs. the SARFT Monster

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Will Moss

I’ve been watching a lot of Godzilla movies recently. This isn’t some kind of weird Cable TV accident, like stumbling onto “Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy” at 2AM when you have a microwave burrito in one hand and a vodka … Continue reading →

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Good News! The Press is Out to Get You

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Will Moss

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about PR in China to a journalism class at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In any student talk the Q&A is always the most fun, and this group was no exception. Among … Continue reading →

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