Author: Vic Socotra

Amid the Other Madness…

Management leaned on our Writer’s Section to concentrate on timely, topical, amusing SHORT topics the other day, since everything is so emotional and intense in this hyper-sonic season. Accuracy was the first casualty in the speed, so we are doing what we can. Earlier, we had tried to explore some of the war in the […]

Living in the Whirlwind

You are living in the same cyclone of activity, so our usual morning blathering will be kept only to an observation of the raw power of the winds swirling and howling around us. We did not attempt to stay awake for the closing remarks at the Red-hued convention last night. The machinations of that process […]

What a Week!

What a darn week! The account has to begin with the attempted assassination and the maelstrom of messaging about it in all directions. Attempted murder on national television, bitter political strife and a variety of legal battles were all reflected in a swirl of highly amplified messages. Our Legal section saw the first draft of […]

So, LeT Us Get This Straight…

The GOP convention is wrapped up in short order. We think they will adjourn today or tomorrow, but all the big news and messaging is already done. Candidate Trump is now the official nominee, and appeared bandaged with his running mate, the first Millennial and first former enlisted Marine to be on a major ticket. […]

New Next Big Thing!

Both Legal and Marketing had sent representatives who were waiting while we finished posting the astonishing morning blather that had superseded the plan to make a significant announcement. Then we got snagged on another development further down the list of Big Things (BTs).\ So, that trumped what we were in the middle of as the […]

A Hill-Billy & Some Elegies

We were a little startled by the news, and perhaps you were as well. The tempo of things since …what are we calling it? The messaging varied at first. “Incident” and “Event” were first, though it transitioned to something of general agreement as an “attempted assassination.” You know how our collective recollections start like that […]

Arrias: Place Your Bets

The race isn’t always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong… but that’s the way to bet. – Hugh Keough (and Damon Runyon) The attempted assassination of former President Trump has now had a chance to settle in just a bit, and in capitals around the world I would suspect that there are […]

Messaging in the Mornings After

It was a decent night’s sleep, according to reports from across the nation and as far away as Australia. We did not know how it was going to go as our last act of the day was to attempt to absorb the address from the Oval Office about the assassination attempt that has roiled us […]

Bastille Day

We were surprised to discover we had slept pretty well after a startling disruption to the evening. We had stayed up late attempting to process the news. We had been working on a draft for a story to be run to bridge the messaging of the NATO Summit week to the rising torrent of reporting […]

Who’s In Charge?

This is the product of a fun outing after the Production Meeting yesterday. You are aware of the developments in the Campaign, and they have been spectacular. One columnist attempted to draw a parallel to the media treatment of other world leaders. That special treatment was deemed necessary to maintaining order and stability. The trajectory […]