Oct
26
PR disasters-a-plenty
Filed Under Public Speaking
I recently warned of the PR perils of speaking in public.
Now, following Pope Benedict’s public speaking furore, Australian Islamic cleric Sheikh Hilali has created a PR storm over his Ramadan sermon, metaphorically - and, come on, a tad insensitively - comparing women to uncovered meat and implying they were largely the catalysts for rape. How, I wonder, when you’re writing a speech or sermon, might you imagine that these kind of comments will be profiled by the media, and interpreted by any audience in a world that feasts on any public pronouncement or utterance?
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