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Owen, David P.

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“…There is evidence that the GCS is taking advantage of this new low for government communications to make interventions. Perhaps belatedly, its new Chief Executive, Simon Baugh, announced in 2022 that training in ethics will be compulsory for all government communicators (Owen, 2022). In a speech to the CIPR, Baugh stated that: “Citizens should be able to trust what they read from official government channels.…”

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No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990–97) and Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

Garland

2023

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PurposeThis study draws parallels between the Major and Johnson eras to reclaim a discursive space beyond the media and political battlefields to examine long-term systemic failure of government PR.Design/methodology/approachAs part of a wider study into government communications from 1979 to date, this paper draws on evidence from government archives from the 1990s, as well as contemporary accounts, official documents, media accounts, memoirs and biographies, to examine the PR record of two Conservative administrations divided by three decades.FindingsNews management during the Major premiership is worth serious scrutiny, not just as an interlude between two media-friendly Prime Ministers, Thatcher and Blair, but in comparison to Boris Johnson's struggle to contain the news narrative between 2019 and 2022. Both administrations experienced terminal reputational crises during their closing years but their means of managing the news were counter-productive and damaging to public trust (65).Practical implicationsDoes this failure in public communication illustrate a systemic dysfunction in government-media relations and, if so, what is the role of government PR in these circumstances?Originality/valueThis article uses a comparison between fixed and moving variables associated with two very different administrations to identify the causes of ongoing systemic failure in government communication.

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No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990–97) and Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

Garland

2023

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COVID-19 in Mexico (I): A behavioral and mathematical analysis demonstrate that the contagion curve has not flattened, and the speed of propagation does not slower down (Preprint)

López¹,

Alvarado²,

Russell³

2020

Journal of Medical Internet Research

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Background: In Mexico, in more than 150 days after the beginning of the epidemic, until August 09 a total of 480,278 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed by the health authorities.Objective: To assess the scientific evidence that supported the verbal behaviors that the contagion curve has already flattened or that the speed of propagation has become slower down in Mexico, as the person responsible for combating the epidemic has repeatedly stated from April to the beginning of August, 2020.Methods: This retrospective study analyzed the verbal behavior of the person responsible for combating the epidemic, as well the official data of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Logistic model was applied to assess if the contagion curve has been flattened and the speed of propagation slowing down.Results: According to the data, the verbal behavior of the person responsible for combating the epidemic in Mexico cannot find any scientific support, considering that in this exercise the logistic model it is projecting that by the end of December more than 630 thousand cases of the disease could be reached in our country; also, the results shows that the speed of spread of infections of the disease has been up, despite the notorious under-registration of epidemiological indicators, among which the confirmed cases and deaths stand out. Conclusions:In Mexico, the practice of different verbal behaviors (e.g. We tamed the pandemic, We already flattened the curve or The speed of propagation in Mexico is slowing down) do not contribute to transmitting messages that are clear, concise and credible, which translates into a potential negative impact on the practice of preventive behaviors to avoid the contagion of the SARS-CoV-2 in large segments of the population. Clinical Trial: No trial registration

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No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990–97) and Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

No escape from the No.10. bunker? UK government news management under siege: John Major (1990–97) and Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

COVID-19 in Mexico (I): A behavioral and mathematical analysis demonstrate that the contagion curve has not flattened, and the speed of propagation does not slower down (Preprint)

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