Xenophon Strategies

Blake Rhodes

Last week, before Washington Nationals 19-year-old phenom, Bryce Harper, dismissed a Toronto reporter’s question about which Canadian beer he would celebrate a big hit with by saying, “that’s a clown question, bro,” you could hear one of the team’s media relations representatives stepping in to close down the line of questioning.  This brings the question, when is the right time for communications...

Bob Brady

If you’re an NBA fan following the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City finals, you may have read of another NBA story line that has overshadowed the Lebron James and Kevin Durant matchup. In a radio interview, NBA commissioner David Stern, waged a war of words with sports analyst and radio host, Jim Rome,...

Matt Meenan

Note: This is part three of an eight-part blog series on the “Rules of the Road” for good PR. Today’s lesson – “It’s Always Better to Engage.” To read previous blog posts, click here.

“No comment” is the public relations equivalent of pleading the Fifth. It conjures up images of suit-wearing men in Congressional hearings, exercising their right...

Matt Meenan

Note: This is part two of an eight-part blog series on the “Rules of the Road” for good PR. Today’s lesson – “Plan Ahead.” To read the original post click here.

Let’s be honest, public relations isn’t the world’s most respected and admired profession. I know that comes as a great shock to all of you, but, turns out, it’s...

Matt Meenan

It never ceases to amaze me how often people blow it when communicating with the public and media. You see it all the time – whether it’s a self-generated PR disaster (I’m looking at you, Dan Snyder), a head-smackingly bad quote in a news story or, nowadays, a Tweet that gets attention for all the wrong reasons (sorry,...