Advertising Age Article Abstract

Voice of BP Twitter Parody Beats Industry With a Stick

Takes PR and Ad Agencies to Task for Talking Brand Rehabilitation at Time of Crisis

Calling himself (or herself) Leroy Stick, the person responsible for @BPGlobalPR has written a blog post. In it, he (or she) puts the jokes aside and tells us how he really feels about what's going down. "The point of this story," it reads, "is that if someone is terrorizing your neighborhood, sometimes it's alright to grab a stick and take a swing." And swing he does. ...

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