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Tag Archives: Ethics
China and the nature of Facebook
Reports have been percolating for a couple of weeks that Facebook will partner with Chinese search engine Baidu to launch Facebook China, or something similar. Anyone who has followed the history of foreign Internet firms in China knows that this … Continue reading
Tagged China, Ethics, Facebook, Google, Internet, Public Relations, Reputation, Technology
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Sinica podcast: China as bogeyman plus scandalous PR
This week’s Sinica is now live. After a long absence I was back on the podcast this week, which was great fun as both topics played to my interests pretty solidly. We talked about the current cycle of China as … Continue reading
Tagged China, Crisis Management, Economy, Ethics, Propaganda, Public Relations, Sinica, USA
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Further to the dairy industry and naughty PR in China
I’ve always wanted to use the words “naughty” and “dairy” in the same sentence. But more on that some other time. I put a link to Gady Epstein’s excellent post on the recent dairy industry PR meltdown in my own earlier … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Ethics, Journalism, Media, Public Relations, Reputation
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Chinese Internet celebrities, forums and other lurid scandals
Two interesting articles today, both having to do with Chinese Internet culture, and both leading into an ethical question that came up in a conversation recently. The question was this: Is it OK to put out “viral” videos that embed … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Ethics, Internet, Media, Pop Culture, Public Relations
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Don’t scoop the reporter who interviews you, and other PR basics
Last Wednesday, the 21st, the IT news channel of giant Chinese portal Sohu published the transcript of an interview of Sohu CEO Charles Zhang by Hong Kong-based BusinessWeek journalist Bruce Einhorn. All well and good, you might think. Chinese portals … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Ethics, Internet, Journalism, Technology
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How to turn one terrible scandal into two
Note: This includes two posts originally published on back-to-back days. Part 1: How to turn one terrible scandal into two Imagethief loves watching companies hang themselves. Unless they are his clients, in which case he has fits watching them hang … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Business, China, Coverups, Crisis Management, Ethics, Olympics, Public Relations
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Foxconn shoots themselves, Apple in foot (Parts 1-3)
Note: This post consolidates three original posts on this topic that were published on consecutive days. It was also cross-posted on my CNET blog, published in 2006 and 2007. Part One: Foxconn shoots themselves, Apple in foot You may recall … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Business, China, Crisis Management, Ethics, Journalism, Public Relations, Reputation
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Are PR and MNCs corrupting Chinese media?
The week before last I had lunch with a foreign correspondent who asked me if there was corruption in PR in China. Although I was only providing background, and not speaking to him on the record, I was, to put … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Business, China, Ethics, Journalism, Media, Public Relations
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A scholarly analysis of the economics of PR in China
It occurs to me that, despite having been a Beijing PR professional for six months, I have yet to write anything about working in Beijing, as opposed to just living here. So let me tackle that by talking about one … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Economy, Ethics, Public Relations
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