This is an uncomfortable, yet reasonable, question for PR professionals:

Is the influence of traditional media – and by extension media relations – waning?

I have *an* answer in this piece.

www.swordandthescript.com/2025/08/infl...

AI cannot understand the human experience of delight, awe, fear, elation, confusion or frustration in any meaningful way
www.swordandthescript.com/2025/07/ai-h...

Listened to a key note speech and meet Mike Massimino, a former #astronaut & engineer that helped fix Hubble.

Photo of him sending the first-ever tweet from space, which read, “Launch was awesome.” Funny story.

Super nice guy and dynamic speaker. Tied his talk to the industry too.

Analysis of 97 million sales emails shows customers don’t respond to ‘pain point’ messages customerthink.com/analysis-of-...

338.

"The average weight in pounds of the Philadelphia Eagles offensive linemen that will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl."

Plug that number into E = MC^2.

They look the same to me. Why is this news?

Also, does Walmart want its logo to be a wave or a particle?

Because it looks like they want them to be both.

The chances of drones hovering near Naval Weapons Station Earle for 30 days and...

.....the US Navy not knowing about this is a low probability (like 10^10^123).

Also, why didn't Navy Public Affairs have a crisis comms plan in place for this? It's PR 101 dude!

#drones #ufos #newjersey #mystery

The head weather forecaster in the US talks up "cloud" and this is the best headline we can come up with?

Come on! Missed opportunity for fun.

At a minimum, ask ChatGPT for 10 funny alternatives.

It's about time! 89% of CMOs forecast a #marketing budget increase of 5% or more in 2025, according to a Merkle survey and Marketing Charts.

That seems right from where I sit.
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