Blagger's Blog – Fake news in elections, fostering children, and political failure

Weekly High

Kleenex at the ready, in the last seven days despite some stiff (and controversial competition- check the 10 Years of PornHub clip doing the rounds online) this advert promoting fostering, produced for the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth, and Family Affairs, managed to top our list of must-sees. We shouldn’t need to explain why once you’ve watched it.

Weekly Low

From a party, and its supporting press, turning on her, to the rather eyebrow-raising move to form a coalition with the DUP, and accusations that, despite visiting the site of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire, she didn’t formally meet any of the victims or their families, this week has been a catastrophe for the UK PM Theresa May, the likes of which you might think are impossible to return from. We shall see.

Need to know

Twitter has unveiled a major aesthetic overhaul to its apps, including rounded profile pictures and bolder story headlines, as Social Media Today reports.

Fox News has dropped its tagline, ‘Fair and Balanced’, replacing it with ‘Most Watched. Most Trusted’.

Just in case you missed us

This week we have been obsessing over last Friday’s #GE2017 result, and put together our own PR take on what went wrong for the Tories, and right for Labour, when it came to drumming up public support.

The Blagger’s Blog is Smoking Gun PR’s weekly roundup of media news, sans effort

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Rick Guttridge

Founder and CEO

Rick Guttridge is the Founder and CEO of Smoking Gun, the PR, influencer and social media agency built around a clear belief: communications should not just create noise, but prove measurable business impact. With more than 25 years’ experience in PR, Rick has helped major brands improve visibility, likeability and memorability through ingenious communications across sectors including FMCG, pets, homes and interiors, mother & baby, health and wellbeing, and personal finance.

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