Tuesday, April 27, 2010

PR 2300: democrats attack Mitt Romney

A new video from the Democratic National Committee takes square aim at former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but Utah Republicans say it just shows how desperate the Democrats are.

PR rep for Romney says you shouldn't give the video more credit than it deserves. Romney even spoke on Fox News about how false the commercial is.

PR 2300: Dodge offers 60 day trial

With the harsh economy taking a toll on the auto industry, Dodge has tried to help their customers out by offering a 60 day money back guarantee.

Good Pr move because many are not confident that they will have their jobs much longer, but still need a new car at the same time.

PR 2300: Albrecht to defend Danny Glover Speech

Danny Glover was recently invited to speak at the USU graduation this spring. There have been many complaints regarding this because some feel that Glover is anti-american.

Albrecht, Dean of USU, defended these allegations and told the Herald Journal of why he believes Glover was a good choice.

PR 2300: Ben Roethlisberger scandal

Mr. Ben was accused of acting against the league personal conduct policy and was recently suspended for 6 games this next NFl season.

Ben's image has been tarnished so he and his PR rep have started implementing changes that need to made to start revamping his personality.

PR 2300: jerry jones bashes bill parcells

Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, was caught on tape talking trash on former coach, Bill Parcells.

PR rep for the Cowboys announced that jones doesn't feel that way and that Jones was just pulling some guys leg.

PR 2300: LDS church unveils greener churches

In order to be more eco-friendly, the church will begin constructing all of the church buildings with more energy efficient appliances.

The church has been criticized for not being environmentally friendly, and this is a sure step toward changing that mind set.

PR 2300: Southwest Airlines

Just when the airline industry couldn't get any worse for southwest airlines, they ended up getting fined for all of the customers who got bumped off their flights because the airline over sold the seats.

You should expect to see a Pr plan intact to make sure their image isn't tarnished by this act.

PR 2300: Goldman and Sachs

As the SEC pursues its case against Goldman Sachs over the possible defrauding of investors during the subprime mortgage crisis, journalists and pundits are closely watching and gauging the financial services company's controversial public relations style and effort.

Lets hope Goldman Sachs has a good crisis plan in order.

PR 2300: Run Ricky Run

Ricky Williams, Running Back for the Miami Dolphins, had a documentary released about him this week.

The media portrayed Ricky throughout his NFL career as a just a drug addict who never really cared about football. This documentary is a good PR move and it shows his true feelings about why he did certain things during his career.

Memo Letter

To: Preston Parker

From: Tyson Ballard

Date: April 26, 2010

Re: Kellen Knowles


Kellen Knowles is one of the most up standing citizens in all of Cache Valley. If you take a look into his life you will find someone who is caring, has many friends, and cares about family.

He is a member of the LDS faith and served a mission for the church for two years. He is on a search at this time to find an eternal companion. He has many who would like to be his, but he is trying to find the right one.

Kellen is employed at Icon Health and Fitness working in the warranty department. He has excelled greatly in that company and is working to gain a spot as a PR rep for a prestigious company.

Kellen has great aspirations in life. Because of his desire to be successful in his career, he has trained himself to write well written PR documents and stories. He has recently written a story for Hard News Café which will soon be published.

Studying Kellen’s facebook page you will find that he has many friends and cares for them. There are many pictures of him at parties with his buddies and plenty of ladies. The ladies tend to flock to Kellen. One can see why once you see how tall he his and the size of his biceps. Kellen’s biceps are anything but natural. He spends a lot of time and the gym lifting weights and improving his overall stature.

Kellen comes from a great family and realizes their importance to him. His brother was recently elected to the high school hall of fame. Kellen was there in attendance to support his brother for his accomplishment. His brother had many high school football games and Kellen attended about 90 percent of those games.

Kellen has a love for music. He has helped advertise many concerts that have come and gone to Logan. He has done a great job advertising for those concerts, and that has helped bring money to those who put the concert on.


Kellen’s life has been one of excellence. If you look at his life you will learn many important values. Hard work, family values, and friends are some values you can learn from Kellen. Anybody who looks at Kellen’s Facebook page will see the values I have been speaking of.

Monday, April 26, 2010

PR 2300: Tiger Woods/ nike ad

In an attempt to help the public admire tiger woods once again, Nike has come up with a ad that has tiger listening to is dead father. His father asks him questions as to why he has made some of his mistakes.

Some find the ad to be offensive, while others find it to only help is destroyed image.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

PR 2300: Sun Chips

The sun chip company is doing a great campaign showing how they are enviromentally friendly.

They show one of their bags dissolving after days of being left on the side of the road.