PRESENTING PR AS TRUTH ON TV An Ofcom investigation into “documentaries” broadcast by the BBC has found that nearly 200 of them were supplied at no cost, with …

CC OR BCC? Some marketeers are finding out the hard way the difference between a carbon copy (cc) and a blind carbon copy (bcc) when bulk emailing, and it’s a common …

SEX AND VIOLENCE LOSES SALES The old adage that “sex sells” has been questioned after a study at Ohio State University has shown that graphic sexual …

DUNCAN SMITH’S DEPARTMENT DECEIVES A misleading leaflet published by Iain Duncan Smith’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used fake stories of benefit …

COSTA LOTTA MORE The payment of the national living wage of £7.20 an hour to all staff over 25 years old at the Whitbread-owned Costa coffee shops will mean price …

YOU COPY? The organising committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have withdrawn their recently-designed logos, with considerable loss and embarrassment, after Belgian …

BENT REVIEWS Those still believing that review websites such as Tripadvisor offer only honest customer opinions of restaurants should know that such establishments are …

DOPEY The panto of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves has been re-named Snow White and her Seven Friends for its presentation at the De Montford Hall in Leicester…