A PR Hero Passes

Foil Safety Seal on Tylenol Bottle

It’s rare to associate a PR person with heroism. But that’s what I’d call the successful management of a public health crisis, an unsolved crime, and a brand/PR disaster all at the same time. An object lesson in Doing the Right Thing. RIP Larry Foster.

 

The War on Consciousness

Graham Hancock’s now-legendary TED talk, given at Whitechapel in January of this year and pulled from the TED site in March (they later put it back up, but in a dusty side pocket someplace). I have to thank TED for censoring this talk, because if they hadn’t I might never have heard of Graham. Six months after watching this video for the first time, I was sitting next to him in a noisy restaurant in Peru, just hours after participating in a ceremony like the one he describes, and comparing notes with him about the experience. More about that soon.