Talking Shop Podcast

We play a shocking piece of audio from a protest in New York where people shout profanity at a journalist who turned up to cover the protest. The news media may have a bigger PR problem than news organizations would like to admit. We dive into the issue and look at how to get a balanced news diet.

We got into some interesting debates in Episode 6 around when to be litigious and when to be more trusting. If you get promises from your boss, make sure you get it in writing -- even if it's just in an email. At the same time, you don't want to come across as not trusting your superior. It's a fine line that we try and straddle!

COVID-19 is leading to huge numbers of job losses, some that may never come back. And we look at some scary delirium suffered by patients who need ventilators. If you weren't scared of COVID-19 before, you will be after hearing this story.

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Links and Sources:

• Video of Anger Towards the Media - Cam MacMurchy Tweet
• An Excellent Discussion on How Journalists Got COVID-19 so Wrong and What to do About it - CamMacMurchy.com
• What Should the Media Learn from the Coronavirus? - Vox
• 'COVID-19 is a Delirium Factory' - The Atlantic
• The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow - Apple Podcasts

**This episode is being republished due to technical issues. If you've already listened to Episode 5 you can obviously skip this. If not, hope you enjoy and sorry it's late.**

This is a good one! It moves fast, too, as we dive into the embarrassing leak of an athlete's misogynistic and damaging private Instagram messages followed by his weak apology. Ewan looks at the lawsuits over COVID-19 piling up as people demand compensation for being put at risk of contracting the disease or refunds from products and services that were never delivered. We also explore a reflective article in The Atlantic that looks at why so many people are unhappy in retirement and what people in high achieving jobs can do to avoid a similar fate.

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Episode 5 Resources:

• Brendan Leipsic's Apology - Twitter
• Why so Many People are Unhappy in Retirement - The Atlantic

This week, Cam and Ewan look at how COVID-19 has impacted the sale of Victoria's Secret, the soaring stock market, China's new "wolf warrior" diplomats, the massacre in Canada and rapid adoption of strict gun laws, the Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance and a whole lot more.

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Episode 4 - Show Notes

• The Victoria's Secret Contract that Anticipated a Pandemic - New York Times
• NRA Tweet on Canada's New Gun Laws - Twitter
• A Split over Zhao Lijian and His Claims, or a Shift in Messaging? - Sinocism
• Top Chinese Official Disowns US Military Lab Coronavirus Conspiracy - Axios
• ‘Let America Degenerate on its Own’: Scholar Implores China to Take the High Road vs. US - SupChina
• Does brash, rash Zhao Lijian really speak for the government? - South China Morning Post
• Coronavirus: They're Only Answering Xi Jinping's Call but are China's 'Wolf Warrior' Diplomats Doing More Harm Than Good? - South China Morning Post
• Cancel Rent - The Atlantic

Episode 4 - Recommendations

• The Last Dance - ESPN
• Michael Jordan's 1992 Team USA Olympic Practice Proves Best Sport is Behind Closed Doors - South China Morning Post

This week, Cam and Ewan look at US courts potentially opening the door for individuals and companies to sue China over the economic fallout from COVID-19, the potential permanent changes to global supply chains and to globalization itself, funerals in an era of social distancing and much, much more.

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Episode 3 - Show Notes

• 33 Signs from "Re-Open" Protests That are 100% Real - Buzzfeed
• With Selective Coronavirus Coverage, China Builds a Culture of Hate - New York Times
• A Million N95 Masks are Coming from China -- on Board the New England Patriots Plane - Wall Street Journal
• Tucker Takes on ex-McKinsey Exec Over Praise of China - It Seems Like an Apology for Fascist Behavior - Fox News
• Two Cargo Planes Return Empty to Canada from China Without Medical Supplies - Globe and Mail
• Can China be Sued Over the Coronavirus? - Bloomberg
• Suing China Over the Coronavirus Won't Help, but Here's What Can Work - Washington Post
• Thailand and China go Toe-to-Toe in Online War with Wonderfully Creative Memes - CamMacMurchy.com

Episode 3 - Recommendations This Week

• A Funeral, Reinvented for the Pandemic - The Daily Podcast by New York Times

We open the show by looking at COVID-19 from two very different spots: Toronto, where a "shelter in place" edict continues to leave streets empty and businesses closed, and Hong Kong, where things are almost back to normal. Restaurants and shopping malls are even full of people!

We also look at popular video conferencing app Zoom and it's long list of security blunders, what employees can do if they feel unsafe at work, and a look at comedian Bill Maher's insistence at calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus".

Related links:

• A Message to Our Users, Zoom CEO Blog Post
• Bill Maher Defends Using 'Chinese Virus' as Name for COVID-19: "We Can't Stop Telling the Truth Because Racists Get the Wrong Idea" - Mediaite

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With COVID-19 continuing to cause mayhem around the world both medically and economically, there was no shortage of angles to discuss in episode one of the PR & Law Podcast.

Below are links to some of the topics, items, or resources mentioned during the show. If you have a PR or legal question, please send it to us on Twitter with the hashtag #PRLawPod and follow us at @PRLaw_Podcast. We are also on Instagram and Facebook.

• #WearAFuckingMask - a straight-talk website from Larry Salibra that cuts through the disinformation with practical and actionable steps (some may even say common sense steps)
• Cam's blog post on the complexities of mask culture - hopefully published soon at CamMacMurchy.com!
• US Weekly Jobless Claims Jump by 6.6 Million and We've Now Lost 10% of Workforce in Three Weeks - a CNBC article on the economic impact of COVID-19 in the United States