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Annals of PR: The Glass Menagerie
Annals of PR: The Glass Menagerie

For the life of me, I’ve long tried to find out the derivation of the word “flack” as it pertains to PR – as a pejorative to denigrate or malign publicists. According to some dictionaries the word could mean.....

In the Wine Industry Where Patience is SOP, PR is Treated as a Double Standard
In the Wine Industry Where Patience is SOP, PR is Treated as a Double Standard

It’s baffling, in an industry whose very premise is predicated upon patience -- after all, we know how long it takes.........

Winiarksi, McIver & Portet Just Keep on Keepin’ On
Winiarksi, McIver & Portet Just Keep on Keepin’ On

Old vintners might fade away but for a troika of wine icons who are now in the..

Women in Wine Deserve (nay) Command Your Support – Now!
Women in Wine Deserve (nay) Command Your Support – Now!

Some might consider this a stretch; and might say, what does this have to do with wine and/or media relations? It well might be a stretch and it only has to do with wine and PR, tangentially....

In the Annals of Winery PR-ing or How I Got a Client’s Story Told
In the Annals of Winery PR-ing or How I Got a Client’s Story Told

It’s another type of expletive of a four-letter word with at least four different meanings. But we publicist-types......

WHY NEWSPAPER FOLK MAKE THE BEST FLACKS
WHY NEWSPAPER FOLK MAKE THE BEST FLACKS

We were sitting on deck chairs, next to the pool in the backyard of Harvey Posert’s house, if I recollect, on Zinfandel Lane in St. Helena. This I believe was in 2009 when I began