Good –
Love them or hate them (and the pr2go office is unanimous on this one!) everyone has heard of Jedward. Even if you don’t like X-Factor and have never watched it you can’t escape the twins.
They’re dividing the judges and the nation and rarely a week starts without the papers talking about what song they sung at the weekend – and this week has been no different…if not worse.
Finding themselves in the bottom two Simon Cowell had the deciding vote as to who went out – Lucie or Jeward. And despite recently saying “If they win, it will be a complete and utter disaster. I’d probably sulk for about six months and I’d probably get on a very fast plane out of the country.” Simon kept the twins in the show.
It means more ten times more press coverage and viewers for the ITV show, which (incidentally) Simon Cowell is executive producer for…
Bad –
It’s been a very bad day for the Prime Minister. He’s upset a mother who’s son recently died in Afghanistan.
In a hand-written letter Gordon Brown wrote to Mrs Janes, but spelt her surname James. The letter, which also contained a number of other spelling errors, was scrawled in black felt tip pen.
Mrs Janes has called the letter a “hastily scrawled insult”. Defending himself Mr Brown has publically apologised and a spokesman explained that the reason for the felt pen was because the PM is blind in one eye.
Writing to the parents of people who’ve died in Afghanistan is a heart-warming thing for the government to do, especially when written by Gordon Brown himself, but how many people really expect hand written letters these days? Aren’t typed ones just as personal? And surely the ‘spell check’ function would make life much easier and cause less offense?
Tags: Afganistan, Gordon Brown, Jedward, John and Edward, Mrs Janes, PR, pr2go, simon cowell, Soldiers, what is PR, X Factor
