Tag Archives: Public Relations

Harbin aftermath: Government vows to thoroughly scape all goats

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Will Moss

Catastrophes are fun to watch, but not nearly so much fun as the aftermath of kicking, screaming and recriminations as blame is liberally heaped and fingers pointed. Katrina lasted only a day, after all, but the operatic fallout has reverberated … Continue reading →

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Van Nguyen died for your sins: Executions as public communication

Posted on December 1, 2005 by Will Moss

The Australians were doomed from the start, literally and metaphorically. They were doomed because they misapprehended the nature of capital punishment for drug offenses in Singapore. They thought of it as retribution, or punishment. This is wrong. Drug-offense executions in … Continue reading →

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The Harbin water crisis

Posted on November 25, 2005 by Will Moss

A couple of days ago, in response to a link I posted to his roundup of articles on the Harbin water crisis ESWN put this comment up on my site: As you are the PR expert, how would you have … Continue reading →

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American Internet firms in Chinese peril

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Will Moss

I like talking with journalists because, naturally, they have a way of asking interesting questions. The same journalist who got me thinking about corruption in PR hit me with a poser while we were talking: “Name a successful American Internet … Continue reading →

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Are PR and MNCs corrupting Chinese media?

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Will Moss

The week before last I had lunch with a foreign correspondent who asked me if there was corruption in PR in China. Although I was only providing background, and not speaking to him on the record, I was, to put … Continue reading →

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The strange lunacy of translators in airliner cockpits

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Will Moss

Singapore is now completely infatuated with China, and the average Straits Times has about seventy-six pages of news from China. I am really good friends with two of the ST correspondents in Beijing, so I will mention that much of … Continue reading →

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Do you, uh, Yahoo? You’re busted!

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Will Moss

Do you, uh, Yahoo? Not, one would hope, if you’re a Chinese dissident or journalist on the wrong side of the authorities. It seems that American technology companies can’t stay out of trouble in China. The last two days has … Continue reading →

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A scholarly analysis of the economics of PR in China

Posted on March 6, 2005 by Will Moss

It occurs to me that, despite having been a Beijing PR professional for six months, I have yet to write anything about working in Beijing, as opposed to just living here. So let me tackle that by talking about one … Continue reading →

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In praise of Google in China

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Will Moss

The BBC’s website is blocked but many international apartment buildings get BBC World. My colleague was watching the BBC in her Beijing apartment this morning when a report on Google’s agreement to censor key words and sites via its upcoming … Continue reading →

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