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By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® Steve Jobs was right about one thing. He and Apple are not perfect. Jobs was talking about the dropped calls problem with the new iPhone 4. But he also proved he’s not perfect in how to handle the media fallout. Jobs was wrong to ban live broadcast coverage […]

Mexico Isn’t on Arizona’s Border? By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers, LLC The scene: Milwaukee. The event: a county supervisors’ meeting. The issue: that controversial law in Arizona to crack down on illegal immigrants. Speaking: Peggy West, a county supervisor. She doesn’t like the law, but for at least one reason that you might […]

The Call Heard ‘Round the World! By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® There’s no question umpire Jim Joyce blew that call at first base. It would’ve been the 27th consecutive out and a perfect game for Detroit Tiger pitcher Armando Galarraga. In an unprecedented act of contrition, Joyce called in reporters immediately after the […]

   Steve Wynn    A Message for Washington        By Eric Seidel, CEO    The Media Trainers, LLC     Passionate, angry, fed up…maybe even giving up on the government in DC. Prominent Las Vegas developer and casino-resort hotel owner and operator Steve Wynn has very strong feelings about what’s going on inside […]

By Eric Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers® Despite millions of gallons of crude gushing up from a BP site in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Senate sponsors insist now is the right time for an energy bill that includes offshore drilling. The Lieberman, Kerry, Graham bill no longer has Sen. Lindsay Graham’s (GOP-SC) support. […]

If the recent 60 Minutes piece on Conan O’Brien was designed to embarrass NBC TV, it had a boomerang effect on CBS News. It was a classless piece; it came off as one arrogant network anxious to kick a struggling competing network while it’s down. You have to wonder if the late executive producer Don […]