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MB's posts are not anti Terri.
He is schooled in PR.
What he is saying, sadly, is right on.
I am not a PR person, but have been well-trained in PR.
Many years ago, my having read one PR book helped save the public relations status with a Fortune 500 company when a corporate jet went down.
Company manuals stated that the first manager aware of a disaster, or problem, was to take over until the proper manager came on the scene, or checked in.

At 6:15 am on a Sunday am, I called our corporate hangar and told them I would not be making the 7am flight due to extreme sinus congestion, and they need not keep a plane waiting for me - I would fly commercial later in the day when I got my sinuses handled.

7:15am, the radio station I listened to cut in for a brief news alert - corporate jet crashed on takeoff, all feared dead. My heart sank into my stomach. I thought, "I hope I remember what my manual said about the first manager aware of a disaster." I called my hanger, and the hysterical administrative assistant answered, having just spoken to the tower. Our plane, MY BELOVED STAFF gone. I told her to close the hanger doors, turn off the lights, and asked if she thought she could get home all right. Fighting back tears, I quickly arranged for our security service to pick her and her car up and get her home.

On to dealing with the tower and the media: Got the tower to agree not to talk to the media and actually deny that anything had happened. Called 3 of the media and asked their assistance in contacting the rest of them to keep everything out of the media until we could contact next of kin. Incredibly helpful! Nothing was broadcast or published until we had figured out what "spin" to put on it.

That afternoon, execs from all departments and two international PR firms and I brainstormed on what the PR spin was to be. The CO was in the red at that time, and had many other major problems. I was "spelled" about 3pm, when a payroll representative brought me final paychecks and separate checks for 2x annual salary for my deceased people. Then a driver and I dutifully made the rounds of the homes of my staff to notify them of their demise, give them the bucks, tell them the company would pick up burial expenses. I am told I did a good job. I was in shock. My staff!

The point of this post, is we kept the fact that the crash out of the media for over 36 hours, and by the time anything was published, the company was shown in a good light - and this was the death of people!!!!!! Wind shear was the cause.

PR "spin" is incredibly important!

MB's posts are not anti Terri. He is schooled in PR.

Well he WAS against using science (a simple low-tech feeding tube) to save Terri last october 24th, so that doesn't exactly make him Pro-Terri either.

I'm not sufficiently convinced he's changed his spots, only that he thinks he can discourage freepers here. At least a dozen have told him to take his radical ideas to the family/insiders group, get it blessed, and we'd follow THEIR recommendations.

Instead, he whines that THEY haven't called HIM yet. Well DUH! Perhaps they can see right thru him and realize his past Anti-Terri remarks. He also said this: I have recommended well-respected names in both areas to Schiavo family friends months ago." ...Ah, so they already rejected his help... sour grapes?...

So in the meantime MB resorts to waging war of his own. I see from other threads on different subjects in the last six months he engages in lots of flame wars where posts need to get yanked by moderators. So far, his brilliant P.R. has all been directed AGAINST our best freepers. For example, here is a tamer comment he said to one: "If I drive over from Orlando, set up an effective PR program, get a decent lawyer involved, will you and the other one tooth wonders sit down, shut up, stay home and stop looking like loonies every time you are on TV?"

Much of his 'advice' seems to play right into the hand of Michael. On a different thread he sighed that all his former co-workers at CBS entertainment division have now moved on to CBS News.

Hi, yesnettv (and good morning, FLe!) -- what a challenging situation you suddenly found yourself in! What a hard loss that must have been. Sounds like your 'autopilot', your intelligence (which led you to read that book!) and your common sense worked well together that day.

I understand and share your concerns that Terri have the very best of defense. The discussion of those particular PR aspects is continuing over HERE on the original thread. This thread can better cover newer developments -- and it turned out that the development was that there was no new information of Terri!

There's so much I don't know about all this. I've just done what little bits I can see, perceive to do based on what I know is happening, or what I guess might be happening.

My prayers have included these thoughts:
* that Terri's family will have all the resources they need for their fight,
* that people who care about Terri's life will do whatever they realize they can do for her, and
* that anything hidden, any evil against Terri, will be uprooted, all for good for Terri and her family, who have been going through hell for over a decade.

MB26 has absolutely insulted EVERYONE and therefore, I can conclude that he LACKS PEOPLE SKILLS. MB26 acts like a bitter has been. He's not even done good PR for himself. I have gotten tons of freepmail and he's done an excellent job of hurting his reputation.

Mind control and public relations are two different things. Mindbender has attempted the former but under the premise of the latter.

I think mindbender's motive is to get Terri's supporters to complain about him to the moderators and to start flame wars on Terri threads so that "they'll ban all Terri threads from Free Republic."

We won't let that happen. It's nice that mb26 has a few friends coming to his defense. He's ruined his OWN REP and if you don't think his posts are anti-Terri, you better go back to school.

SO CALLED EXPERTS AT FR aren't helping Terri. They are just trying to stir things up.

Well trained to defend the defenseless? Good for you. There goes your REP at FR too.