Bob Pickard
@pr
Principal, Leadership Communication Inc. Public relations for newsmakers. 30+ year comms career @ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵🇨🇦🇰🇷🇸🇬 Served as CEO of Burson in Asia and North Asia of Edelman. Former MDB global comms chief. PRC state media says I perform “purely sensational hype.”
I'm listening to historic radio station WWJ Detroit, on the air for 106 years since 1920. Broadcasting on 950 kHz at 50,000 watts, WWJ is credited with originating the first regular radio news reports, the first regularly scheduled religious broadcasts, and the first play-by-play sports broadcasts.
The liar isn’t the most dangerous communicator. It’s the person who doesn’t care if they’re telling the truth. A new study explains why: false claims are more believable from truth-indifferent sources than known liars (and corrections that kill lies bounce off bullshit). Repetition does the rest.
So the public is hearing much less about climate change. The share of Americans encountering the topic in the media at least monthly has fallen from 57% to 39%, even though 65% say the issue is personally important to them (and a majority are interested in global warming news stories).
Farage responds to the allegations by framing his defence as a series of negative propositions rather than affirmative facts, proactively introducing wrongdoing, illegality, and misuse of public funds. Even in denial, the audience must first entertain each allegation before processing the rebuttal.
St. Lawrence River vista from Gananoque, ON looking across to Grindstone Island, NY
Today’s Toronto Star newspaper mentions my recent relocation to Alberta and includes some comments on the context I see from my vantage point in Calgary.
Tuned into KFYR radio, “the Voice of the Northern Plains” broadcasting from Bismarck, North Dakota. On the air since 1925, this 5,000-watt station benefits from a low dial position, open prairie terrain, and strong groundwave propagation…
"AI can clone your voice. Why that’s powerful — and dangerous. New University of Cincinnati research dives into the persuasiveness of vocal similarity"