PR needs constant contact with news
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For the last 12 days, I haven’t watched a television or read the newspaper or any news online. I’m completely out of the loop.
So Obama presented a health plan last nite, and a Republican house member shouted in the middle of it. The irony is, I’ve been so mired in getting up to speed on Medicare, Tri-care, Medicaid, assisted living, rehab and nursing home terminology that I haven’t had a minute to keep up with the world outside my situation here in Rhode Island, health care reform or not. I feel completely cut off.
If you were advising the president, what would you change about how he has delivered his health reform plans? And what would you advise the house member who apparently expressed his displeasure aloud? Without being fully apprised of the news, I can’t advise either one appropriately. PR needs information like plants need water.
I think the real story is the dog that didn’t bark. There was almost no coverage in most of the media about Green Jobs Czar Van Jones before or after his resignation (for signing a petition implying the Bush administration was behind 9/11, and for calling Republican’s “assholes”). The administration timed the resignation over the Labor Day weekend.
You have to admit though, James, that disrupting a president’s speech is in a completely different category. It’s all context. South Carolina’s behavior pushed Van Jones’ activities right off the map.