Bob Pickard
@pr.bobpickard.com
Principal, Leadership Communication Inc. Public relations for newsmakers. 30+ year comms career @ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵🇨🇦🇰🇷🇸🇬 Served as CEO of Burson in Asia and North Asia of Edelman. Former MDB global comms chief. PRC state media says I perform “purely sensational hype.”
Development banks are often led by officials from their biggest shareholder. But Zou Jiayi, the new head of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, comes from Communist Party bodies that oversee political control across Chinese society, @nithincoca.com writes.
China Is Done Pretending the AIIB Is Independent
When the AIIB was founded a decade ago, China went to great lengths to portray it as a technocratic institution. That has changed.
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A new top-down attempt to rebrand artificial intelligence data centers as "super intelligence factories" tries too hard and just won't stick with the general public.
Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 2w agoJUST IN: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declares data centers are now called “superintelligence factories.”
Public disclosures of politicians using AI for their leadership communication are becoming more frequent. They all have staff whose duties include speechwriting, but clearly many are taking the easy way out and embarrassing their bosses who are ultimately responsible.
International Trade Minister among MPs who used AI to help write speeches in Commons chamber
Eleven MPs used AI to help craft about half their words in the Commons chamber in the past year, the Economist found
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"Journalists hate AI-generated PR" 1,394,740 public relations pitches ÷ 42,392 journalist requests = 33 PR pitches per journo request, of which 21% or an average of 7 are fully AI pitches.
Another reason to think twice about buying any Driscoll's products in Canada. I uniformly avoid this brand. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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"If we take a step back and look at the attempts to communicate the climate crisis then perhaps now is the time to admit that we have failed."
Climate communication is irrationally hopeful. We need to tell the truth about the Great Unraveling
Where’s the urgency in climate discussions? Scholars Theresa Leisgang and Gerriet Schwen examined why climate warnings fail to spur change and how they might better motivate us to act in the face of c...
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“Nobody in the world wants to lineup with this MAGA Trump failed brand now, except it would seem Danielle Smith Premier of Alberta who wants to pervert democratic institutions to maximize her own position of power.” @pr.bobpickard.com on 🇨🇦 The OShow youtu.be/E_Odjnj9kZs?si… #Cndpoli
🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney heralded as Leader of the Free World retaliates with new dollar-for-dollar tariffs on Trump’s America. Trump and Ford trade blows while Premier Danielle Smith threatens our sovereignty helping separatists. 🇨🇦 The OShow with @pr.bobpickard.com 🔗 youtu.be/E_Odjnj9kZs?...
THE OSHOW: CARNEY LEADS FREE WORLD, TRUMP WANTS LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA RETALIATES, SMITH HELPING USA
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We will discuss the latest tariffs in this war with Trump’s America and the way all the leaders are handling their communication on today’s OShow with @pr.bobpickard.com 🇨🇦 youtube.com/@theoshowwithl…
I hope this toxic propagandist proves too radioactive for any corporate comms department or public relations firm to hire. All WH Press Secretaries pivot and prevaricate, but this unethical liar is the most dishonest of any spokesperson to ever stand at the lectern in the Press Briefing Room.
VT Commons@vtcommons.bsky.social · 2mo agoShe'll do great lying as part of a corporate comms team. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/t...
NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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The Harvard Business School case study on the demise of CBS News will be a banger.
There’s something deeply satisfying about a wall of freshly baled straw.
This is an instantly iconic photo that will be remembered from this hinge point in history.
Michel Mompontet@mmompontet.bsky.social · 3mo agoEt cette photo terrible de Maximilien Lamy de l'AFP, qui nous montre ce que nous sommes devenus. Les spectateurs vaincus du désastre climatique .
I'm listening to historic radio station WWJ Detroit, on the air for 106 years since 1920. Broadcasting on 950 kHz at 50,000 watts, WWJ is credited with originating the first regular radio news reports, the first regularly scheduled religious broadcasts, and the first play-by-play sports broadcasts.
“Poilievre is way too glib! Demagoguery and disinformation is all we get. The personality is so sour and wanting in gravitas… He stirs the pot so they’ll follow him in this trauma bond of grievance against the country…” @pr.bobpickard.com on 🇨🇦 The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/1tOLJ8MwseI?si…