http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog John Stonborough & Co / Air Supremacy Ltd Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had a very positive response to my last blog "Ofcom's Unfairness Committee", with the link being re-tweeted on Twitter to over 10,000 PR and Media people! It's obviously struck a chord; In particular I want to share this note from Susan Barty, a partner with leading London law firm CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, who ... http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=233 After a Ruling that destroys the Right to be Heard - Is it Time to Overhaul the Ofcom Standards and Fairness Complaints Process? In a telling scene in the new Stieg Larsson film, The Girl Who Played with Fire, investigative reporter Micke Blomqvist insists that the targets of a Millennium investigation into ... http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=229 Ofcom has profoundly damaged the 'right to be heard' by this perverse ruling (see pages 51-108) The entire Channel 4 programme (Dispatches: What‟s In Your Breakfast?, Channel 4, 26 October 2009) was an attack on cereal manufacturers and their products. How Ofcom can declare there were 'no significant allegations of wrong ... http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=225 "When someone says something is 'off the record' they have already told 20 people. When it's 'strictly off the record' they have already told 200" (John Betjeman) http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=224 Times Fashion & Beauty Editor Lisa Armstrong picked my clever designer wife Jane's gorgeous Handbags for her 'One to Watch' column today. http://www.pochette-a-porter.com    http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=221 PR in Tweetspeak! #pr power. #Crest Nicholson #FHDC shamed over Dead Red Lodge #newmarket ghost town #hatchfield. Indie http://bit.ly/bsIu5b #Boadicea Lives. But a picture is still worth a thousand tweets: Red Lodge resident Lisa Rothwell in the Independent 18/06/10     http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=219   9 June 2010 (photo Emma Berry) Lord Derby had wanted to build about 1,200 houses, a hotel, park and ride scheme and a retail park on a 160-acre site in Newmarket, Suffolk. But councillors voted against the plans at a meeting last Wednesday, after a long-running battle during which Save Historic Newmarket Action ... http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=215 At 7.15pm last night Forest Heath District Council voted unanimously to reject the Earl of Derby's application to build more than a thousand houses at Hatchfield on the edge of Newmarket. The result of one of the most intense PR assignments my colleague Victoria Sabin and I have ever undertaken and ... http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=212 My friend Guy Black has been dispatched to the Lords in yesterday's Honours List, (along with John Prescott for gawds sake). I am so delighted, Guy is a terrific bloke and currently executive director of the Telegraph Media Group; anybody remember what happened to the last Lord Black at the Telegraph? http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=211 Clients and anybody who's sat through one of my lectures, has heard me bang on about creating an 'exclusion zone' around reporters 'Treat all microphones as on and all cameras as running.' 'Classic Gaffes Caught on Microphone' http://www.airsupremacy.co.uk/blog/?p=209