Tag Archives: Public Relations

Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that’s a crisis!

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Will Moss

If you want to get people mad –I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged– screw with their pets or their babies. That’s what we’ve learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of the plastic melamine to pop up in … Continue reading →

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Why I don’t care about the opening ceremony’s fraudulent footprints

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Will Moss

Or so you would start to believe from the press reports over the last day. Some have dwelt upon the lip-synched singing of hyper-precious Lin Miaoke, the impossibly apple-cheeked munchkin girl who “sang” the laudatory and self-referentially titled “I sing … Continue reading →

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Let me tell ya about Edison Chen’s dirty photos

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Will Moss

With the possible exception of Disney villains, Imagethief cannot think of a group of people that more richly deserve their miserable fates than Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen and his cavalcade of cupcakes. If I sound unsympathetic here, that is … Continue reading →

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China problems create rewards (and disasters) for PR risk takers

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Will Moss

Note: This was originally two posts, published within a few days of each other. Part 1: China problems create rewards for PR risk takers (July 30, 2007) All PR has an element of risk to it. That’s one of the … Continue reading →

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How to work with interpreters

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Will Moss

I spend a lot of time working with interpreters, which can be trying. Interpretation is one of those things that it seems no one is ever entirely happy with. Someone always feels like some essential point or nuance didn’t make … Continue reading →

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Nobody said media-whoring would be easy

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Will Moss

If you follow the Internet in China, you may have heard of a young man who goes by the online name “Zola” (or “Zuola” to be perfectly correct). He has been billed as “China’s first citizen journalist“. Zola first attracted … Continue reading →

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China’s food crisis PR strategy: Blame everyone else

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Will Moss

A few weeks into China’s rippling food quality crisis a PR strategy is coming into view. It’s a classic one: blame everyone else. Unfortunately, it’s not likely to be all that effective because of two things. First, China does actually … Continue reading →

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Did the “Genocide Olympics” influence China?

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Will Moss

Propaganda and censorship are two sides of the same coin. Both share the same goal: to enable an individual or organization to shape consensus in a group. They often work together. Censorship eliminates competing ideas, creating a void in which … Continue reading →

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How to turn one terrible scandal into two

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Will Moss

Note: This includes two posts originally published on back-to-back days. Part 1: How to turn one terrible scandal into two Imagethief loves watching companies hang themselves. Unless they are his clients, in which case he has fits watching them hang … Continue reading →

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Olympics mean a softer touch for foreign correspondents, maybe

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Will Moss

Ed Cody of the Washington Post’s Beijing bureau has written an interesting story on a new decree from the Chinese government that will grant foreign correspondents in China significantly more freedom in the months before and after the games. The … Continue reading →

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