An Independence Day Salute to Our Founding Fathers of Fake News
By Thom Fladung/Hennes Communications This 4th of July, amid the fireworks, hot dogs and parades, let’s remember another grand American tradition: making stuff up. Or, as John Adams noted with delight in his diary in 1769, he’d spent the evening in “a curious employment. Cooking up Paragraphs, Articles, Occurrences etc. – working the political Engine!” […]
A Major League Crisis – and How a TV News Producer Attacked it with a Roll of the Dice
[by Howard Fencl, Hennes Communications] Cleveland’s getting ready for another turn in the national spotlight with the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star game. There’s a lot of revitalization to show off to national media doing sidebar travelogue pieces on the city. Where else can you find a town celebrating its river’s miraculous recovery 50 years […]