Posted November 23rd, 2006
Phil Bates of Commonwealth Bank Cycling fame has organised a new cycling event for Sydney on December 17th in Cronulla, it’ll be sun, surf, sand and bicycles.
A COTERIE of Australia’s world-class road and track cyclists is leading the push to rid the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla of its sullied reputation on the anniversary of […]
Posted in Race, The Desk, Public relations by Philip | 6 Comments »
Posted September 9th, 2006
About a month ago I commented on McDonalds Hummer of A Summer Happy Meal promotion, well it’s taken exactly that amount of time for the company to respond to similar criticism from other sources through it’s corporate and social responsibility blog, and unsurprisingly they are absolutely unapologetic about marketing socially inappropriate toys to children.
Vice […]
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Posted August 17th, 2006
Update: In a shocking development Floyd Landis’ father-in-law, David Witt was found dead on Tuesday, without doubt the timeline accounts for the closing of comments at Landis’ blog, given these circumstances, my comments below on that matter are neither appropriate or valid. [Phil]
Floyd Landis made a statement on his site far classier that that of […]
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Posted August 11th, 2006
Of course MacDonalds and it’s marketing team are utterly insane. It’s not enough that they produce and aggressively market food which contirbutes to making children fat and unhealthy, it appears they are now doing a job for GM as well.
MacDonalds Minister for Propaganda Bill Lamar leaves us with this inane piece of corporate speak.
……………….the […]
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