This week's Global Special (see p. 13) reveals that many corporate sponsors of the upcoming Olympics have focused their messaging on supporting the spirit of the Games, instead of addressing the political controversy generated by China's hosting of the Games, and, in turn, the perceived support their sponsorship conveys.

Clumsy at best, callous at worst, the New York Mets this past Tuesday morning unwittingly provided every organization with a blueprint of how not to handle a management shake up.

Whether you were rooting for or against her presidential campaign, Sen. Hillary Clinton's concession speech gave professional women particular reason to smile with its reference to that infamous glass ceiling.

Although former White House press secretary Scott McClellan gained instant attention for his recent book - What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception - discussions soon turned to criticism of the PR industry as a whole.

When Whole Foods' CEO John Mackey was caught using the screen name Rahodeb to post anonymous comments about his company and its competitors, the executive took a break from Whole Foods' The CEO's Blog.

Merck's $58 million payout should be a lesson to Big Pharma and its marketers. Although the pharmaceutical industry and PR agencies serving clients are eager to get into more social media work, this case will hinder those efforts.

No one doubts those are "real" women that appear in Unilever's Dove advertisements. They have real curves - hips and all - and even very real wrinkles, sags, and bags in the pro-age ads, which were part of Dove's much-heralded "Campaign for Real Beauty." Victoria's Secret's models these are not.

Annual conferences, particularly those bearing the stuffy "leadership" title, don't usually make journalists gush, but gush they did over the recent Four A's conference held in Southern California

Incisor Communications, created so that Bite Communications could take on the Sybase account without dropping any existing clients (PRWeek, April 28), is a tenuous conflict solution.

Viewers already know not to believe everything they see on TV, but a recent investigation by The New York Times will give them more reason to question those presented as "experts," brought in to pontificate on various topics - particularly, perhaps, matters of war.