“If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes, that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it’s a different thing.”
U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden
“Biden takes train after warning family to beware of confined spaces…”
Headline in ChicagoTribune.com on White House damage control over Joe Biden’s statement.
“The swine influenza outbreak makes Twitter more useful and somewhat useless, at the same time.”
Wayne Kurtzman, Media Bullseye
“Apparently the rate of infection is not as widespread as we might have thought.”
José Ángel Córdova, Mexico’s health minister
“Yes. And NO NO NO. Recently we’ve all been guilty of cheap and dirty!”
Lilamani Dias, CEO of LOwe, Sri Lanka, asked whether advertising standards have inproved over the past five years, on the occasion of the annual creative awards, The Chillies
“Social colonization is when every web experience will be social.”
Jeremiah Owyang, on the news about Facebook opening its walled garden to third-party developers.
Bottom line, Carnival should have been ready sooner with a statement and made it easily accessible on its web site. Surely it has a crisis communications plan?
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