Dick Martin

We thought social media would make the world smaller. But it made us smaller, in echo chambers of disinformation. Our naiveté was a failure of imagination. We couldn't see into the darkest downsides. Now we're repeating the same mistake with AI. technologyreview.com/2024/03…

Age of Artificial Intelligence is here. PR people must understand implications beyond machines writing news releases. What are trade-offs in privacy, security, and free choice? How manage them? How counsel clients? See video: buff.ly/409KOmw

Genius: From FastCompany -—“As society pivots toward a more conscious form of capitalism, lies are Public Enemy No. 1. They’re the Anna Sorokin, George Santos, and Sam Bankman-Fried of bad communication."” buff.ly/3ko9asW

Congress is investigating the role of PR in preventing action on climate change. Watch the hearing on Sept. 14 10 am. Should be interesting. bit.ly/3RGb3gC

Here are a few words in defense of "spinning“ without losing your soul. buff.ly/3e6EoSm

COVID-19 forced most of us in the communication business to work from home. In the process, we learned more than how to navigate Zoom. We also learned more about communication, from both the sending and receiving end. buff.ly/3dTF5yr

Now that people seem to be worrying less about COVID, they should begin worrying more about an equally dangerous plague: Zombie Partisanship, buff.ly/3poB6fw

A case study in unethical public communication. The people behind the bizarre non-profit trying to kill Biden's climate agenda. Flimflamming at its worst. buff.ly/3QoenfL

P. T. Barnum flimflammed millions into his museums and circus tents and called it “entertainment.” Now politicians are using the same techniques to flimflam voters and they call it “free speech.”Here’s how they do it. And you can too! buff.ly/3BAeiRn

Department of Disheartening News: I wrote a book on Rebuilding Brand America, following the invasion of Iraq. Things got better for a while, but now we seem to be sliding again. Uvalde Shooting and Roe Reversal create headwinds for US exports and tourism buff.ly/3zEDHrJ