http://www.prmatters.co.nz fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/inclusive-politics-%e2%80%a6-your-local-tui-billboard-has-the-answer/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/inclusive-politics-%e2%80%a6-your-local-tui-billboard-has-the-answer/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:39:42 +0000 Dennis Lynch http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=594 As Australia inches forward to deciding who won last Saturday’s election, for diversion media commentators across the ditch are pouring over the tea leaves trying to analyse why the electorate voted the way it did. One recurring theme is ‘the electorate is sick and tired of the adversarial politics served up by the two main [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/inclusive-politics-%e2%80%a6-your-local-tui-billboard-has-the-answer/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/spilling-the-beans-becomes-inevitable/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/spilling-the-beans-becomes-inevitable/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:44:43 +0000 Jane Dodd http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=544 It wasn’t the Australian Leaders’ Debate that sparked a major controversy on Monday morning radio. Nor was it the Leaders’ debate timeslot being moved to give preference to the hotly contested final of Australian Masterchef on Sunday night. No, it was Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report inadvertently disclosing the winner of said cooking show. In [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/spilling-the-beans-becomes-inevitable/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/fair-play-or-out-of-bounds/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/fair-play-or-out-of-bounds/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:27:12 +0000 Dennis Lynch http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=243 The ability of the media to ‘spark’ a controversy, and that of social media to ‘fuel it’ has rarely been better illustrated than the histrionics raging in Australian over the comments made by the new Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, when asked the question:  what advice would you give your daughters about sex before [...]

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