By Laurence Lee, director of media
This is just a personal view on the BBC cuts announced today and doesn’t represent any opinion of Porter Novelli other than mine. But I’m saying it anyway as someone who worked at the Beeb for 10 years and who left in disillusionment at the lack of direction and mucking about with [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’
2 March, 2010
Why the BBC should go back to basics
3 February, 2010
Poacher turned gamekeeper: Could PR have saved John Terry?
By Laurence Lee, head of media
Poor old John Terry. One minute he’s Captain Marvel, the next he’s a walking soap opera. Despite his best efforts in gagging the press, he will, undoubtedly, have to say something about the affair and so his entire strategy of covering up his infidelity through the courts will have backfired. [...]
20 January, 2010
Poacher turned Gamekeeper: E.ON redundancies – very bad timing
By Laurence Lee, head of media
Energy provider E.ON today announced it is making up to 800 job cuts in Essex. It’s unfortunate that this news came in the same week that we were presented with more evidence that the recession’s coming to an end. Inflation is likely to rise due to the government finding hundreds of millions [...]
18 November, 2009
Poacher turned gamekeeper: How to get your message onto the BBC
By Laurence Lee, director of media
Hats off to Antony Sumara, chief executive of the previously-unglamorous Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Sumara used a column on the BBC’s blog (can you imagine a NHS manager blogging?) to express his views on BBC programme Holby City. His argument on the blog was that hospital dramas often paint a misleading [...]
10 November, 2009
Poacher turned gamekeeper: Why the past keeps coming back
By Laurence Lee, director of media
The power of nostalgia. If you log on to Google right now you won’t be able to escape the Sesame Street 40th birthday celebrations. Can it be true that a brand that was launched in 1969 is still sufficiently powerful now to get a nod from Google?
Why do some things [...]
3 November, 2009
Poacher turned gamekeeper: Why employ experts if you won’t listen?
By Laurence Lee, director of media
The drugs row which has been in the news over the last few days has cast an extraordinary light on how we do politics in the UK, and how we do communications.
The reaction from the Government to the views of Professor Nutt and his colleagues has been to treat them [...]
