A snippet from the Independent today. Donald Tump Buys the Grampian Police force alegedly! Quote Keep calm, they’ll soon lose interest A small but chilling insight into the modern way of news management has been provided by Scotland’s Grampian Police. Its officers emerged with rather less than credit last year from Anthony Baxter’s BBC documentary You’ve Been Trumped, seeming to have an institutional bias in favour of Donald Trump over the matter of the American businessman’s Aberdeenshire golf resort. At one point, the police took the director and producer into custody while filming and conducting an interview. Subsequently all charges against them were dropped. Now, thanks to a freedom-of-information request from the Sunday Herald, it has emerged that Grampian Police elected to take a “low-key” PR approach to the programme and the publicity surrounding it. Five days after its broadcast, a police inspector reported, with satisfaction, “We’re of the opinion that the interest is waning.” The next time a news programme explains that an organisation with tricky questions to answer has declined to be interviewed, it is worth remembering Grampian Police and its “low-key” tactic. It is a simple ploy of the powerful – keep your head down, and soon enough, interest will wane. EndQuote
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:13:12 +0000
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