<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts in Public Affairs</title><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/categories/public-affairs</link><description>Posts in the Public Affairs category on MarCom Professional</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:11:20 +0100</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2008 MarCom Professional and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.marcomprofessional.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>MarCom Professional</title><url>http://www.marcomprofessional.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/categories/public-affairs</link></image>	<item><title>How important is powerful imagery and careful positioning?</title><description><![CDATA[By Andrew Kenneally Obama&rsquo;s recent trip to Europe had me in&nbsp;awe at the&nbsp;powerful&nbsp;imagery and careful positioning executed by his campaign.&nbsp; Apart from stealing any and all media coverage from his opponent, he demonstrated&nbsp;in&nbsp;a very short amount of time&nbsp;that:&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;he&nbsp;could do the job by standing toe to toe with foreign heads of state, (2) he&nbsp;understands foreign issues; and (3) he wants to work with our foreign neighbors and re-build&nbsp;the bridges that so many Americans believe were destroyed post-911.]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/peter.prodromou/how-important-is-powerful-imagery-and-careful-positioning</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/peter.prodromou/how-important-is-powerful-imagery-and-careful-positioning</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:13:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Q&A with LabourHome on Party Treasurer Campaign</title><description><![CDATA[What?LabourHome launched a campaign to challenge Jack Dromey&#39;s re-election to the role of Labour Treasurer. It is the largest independent Labour blog (60,000 regular users), run by former NOP pollster, Alex Hilton, US web campaign guru, Jag Singh and media strategist, Mark Hanson.Who?Its candidate was Mark McDonald, a human rights barrister, who is also associate editor of LabourHome.Why?LabourHome was responding to discontent amongst Labour grassroots that manifested itself on the site.How?The]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/qa-with-labourhome-on-party-treasurer-campaign</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/qa-with-labourhome-on-party-treasurer-campaign</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:39:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Mamma mia, smear we go again…</title><description><![CDATA[Hark back to your earliest days as a PR exec and I&rsquo;m sure there&rsquo;ll be some mid-level manager harping on at you to make sure you proof the press pack before it goes to the media. Looks like this most elementary facet of common sense slipped those highly-trained hawks at the White House when they issued briefing documents to journalists accompanying President Bush on Air Force One with some pretty damning comments about Italian premier, Silvio Berlusconi.The document smears the media mogul-turned-prime minister as &quot;one of the most controversial leaders&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/mamma-mia-smear-we-go-again</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/mamma-mia-smear-we-go-again</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:07:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Sweetheart Deals for U.S. Senators?</title><description><![CDATA[By Andrew Kenneally This week,&nbsp;Congressional Quarterly&nbsp;reported that the&nbsp;U.S. Senate&rsquo;s Ethics Committee added&nbsp;an amendment&nbsp;to&nbsp;housing legislation (HR 3221) that would require senators to disclose the creditor, amount, interest rate and term of&nbsp;any&nbsp;mortgage they have.&nbsp; The amendment is the result of&nbsp;news that&nbsp;Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad&nbsp;received&nbsp;sweetheart&nbsp;deals&nbsp;from Countrywide Financial Corporation.&nbsp;]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/peter.prodromou/sweetheart-deals-for-u.s.-senators</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/peter.prodromou/sweetheart-deals-for-u.s.-senators</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:36:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>More nonsense from the UK Government about the Internet</title><description><![CDATA[Everton fan Andy Burnham is &quot;in charge&quot; of the media in the UK since he is the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport. However, rumours reach me that he is considering setting up the equivalent of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) for the Internet.The PCC is an independent body which handles complaints made against newspapers and magazines in the UK. Last year it dealt with more than 4,300 complaints, up 70% on 10 years earlier. But these complaints were mostly made about British newspapers.]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/graham.jones/more-nonsense-from-the-uk-government-about-the-internet</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/graham.jones/more-nonsense-from-the-uk-government-about-the-internet</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:07:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Lisbon Treaty referendum</title><description><![CDATA[The Downing Street petition site is offering UK voters the chance to vote for (12 votes so far) or against (19,500 votes so far) ratifying the Lisbon Treaty. Via Guido Fawkes and various mates by email.]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/lisbon-treaty-referendum</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/lisbon-treaty-referendum</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Phew, I'm bushed mate</title><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s like the night after the party. Hillary Clinton&#39;s presidential campaign has been silenced - ish - after eventually running out of steam in the early hours.Today we&#39;re being treated to Barack Obama&#39;s Luther-Kingesque prophesising and Hillary saying she may be out of it but she&#39;s still thinking about how best to continue to be in it, albeit in a completely non-potentially presidential way.And so the debate continues. One certain thing has emerged from the past many months of fevered primary campaigning - media coverage of political leadership races remains utterly dull.The press really need to come up with a more interesting formula for covering this sort of thing, particularly over here in the UK, where frankly we&#39;re not that bovvered.]]></description><link>http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/phew-im-bushed-mate</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marcomprofessional.com/posts/stephen.waddington/phew-im-bushed-mate</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:23:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
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