Top 2010 PR blunders!
Some PR slip-ups are spur-of-the-moment, while others are planned events gone wrong. A few days after one of their wells in the Gulf of Mexico began spewing crude into the sea, BP started making some PR maneuvers that haven’t exactly been successful. It is my opinion that their handling of the spill worsened by the day through their PR. This PR debacle from BP got me thinking about other PR mistakes that have been made this year. I’ve compiled a list of my worst PR moves this year (so far) and I am sure when the experts finally sit down at the end of the year to take stock, many of these will make the list. No. 1 - Tony Hayward CEO BP. It is hardly surprising that he takes this place, especially that this piece was sparked off by his poor handling of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This rather smart and nice looking gentleman kept making PR mistakes, one after the other, one would wonder who his PR advisors were. The lowest for me is when he insinuated that the whole ‘oil...