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		<title>Words Matter &#8211; Arizona Aftermath&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I make an effort to avoid violent movies, television programs, and evening news stories.  I&#8217;ll admit to watching one cop drama, with occasional violent scenes, on a regular basis.  In general, I also try to stay away from war metaphors and other aggressive language when I&#8217;m speaking, in public and in private. Ordinarily I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/words-matter-arizona-aftermath/</link>
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		<title>The King&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! Saw a marvelous movie over the holidays and highly recommend it.  &#8221;The King&#8217;s Speech&#8221; tells the real life story of Britain&#8217;s King George VI and his struggles to overcome his inability to speak without stammering. The acting is wonderful and it hit home for me because of the relationship between the King [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/the-kings-speech/</link>
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		<title>Giving Thanks and Appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a snowy day in Seattle, the first of what is supposed to be a more stormy than usual winter.  No, this is not a weather report.  Because just about everything shuts down here when it snows, it&#8217;s a little bit of reflection, assessment, and appreciation for the many positive things that have happened in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/giving-thanks-and-appreciation/</link>
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		<title>Business Ethics and Crisis Response &#8211; Will Apologies Help J &amp; J?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Johnson &#38; Johnson, the huge personal products company, apologized to a congressional committee this week after they got caught in a drug recall scandal.  Can this be the same company that set the gold standard for crisis response during the 1982 Tylenol tampering scare?  What happened? What were they thinking when they decided to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/business-ethics-and-crisis-response-will-apologies-help-j-j/</link>
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		<title>Media &#8211; Losing trust with its audiences&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a just released Gallup poll a majority of our fellow citizens nationwide do not trust media to deliver fair, unbiased, and accurate reporting.  Newspapers and TV seem to generated the least amount of confidence in their content.  As a former television news producer it&#8217;s very disheartening, but not surprising.  I watch very little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/media-losing-trust-with-its-audiences/</link>
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		<title>Elevator Pitches…He Likes Mine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big shout out to Brian Anthony Hernandez of BusinessNewsDaily.  He mentioned some of my ideas and the book with several other experts in his on-line article today. Check it out]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/elevator-pitches-he-likes-mine/</link>
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		<title>Newspaper Headlines – Not What I’d Expect from Seattle Times…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love to read the newspaper, the old fashioned kind where you have to turn the pages.  I subscribed to both newspapers in Seattle to the very last day until the Seattle PI stopped publishing a physical paper and went on-line. Imagine my surprise when I opened up this morning&#8217;s Seattle Times and saw the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/newspaper-headlines-not-what-id-expect-from-seattle-times/</link>
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		<title>Media Mishaps &#8211; The End of Cool&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark 2010 as the year that Apple, or rather its CEO Steve Jobs, slammed his &#8220;cool&#8221; status into the dumper.  It&#8217;s been rumored for years that Jobs has anger management issues, however his behavior over the past couple of months really lifts the curtain on the great and powerful Jobs.  It started with his &#8220;we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/media-mishaps-the-end-of-cool/</link>
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		<title>Crisis Communications &#8211; I&#8217;ll Miss Thad Allen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know how to handle the media in a crisis, take a lesson from Thad Allen.  It&#8217;s rare to have someone who can completely corral the media in the middle of chaos and turn things around.  And that&#8217;s exactly what he did.  Watched him last night on the PBS News Hour.  In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/crisis-communications-ill-miss-thad-allen/</link>
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		<title>Communication and Business &#8211; What do we do now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had similar conversations with business friends and colleagues for several months now.  It seems everyone is trying to figure out what to do next and how to attract business in this &#8220;new normal?&#8221; Last week I had coffee with someone who is doing something about it and she shared her strategy with me. With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediaskillstraining.com/communication-and-business-what-do-we-do-now/</link>
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