{"id":41253,"date":"2017-04-11T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41253"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:36:06","slug":"corporate-pr-disaster-epic-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/corporate-pr-disaster-epic-proportions.html","title":{"rendered":"A corporate PR disaster of epic proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41254\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/header.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41254\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41254\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/header-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Oh yes, they're friendly alright.\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cOr maybe we\u2019ll drag you screaming from the plane. Your choice.\u201d<br>The famous corporate ad slogan has taken on an ironic flavor. \u00a0(Screenshot from United Airlines commercial)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard about the 69-year-old doctor who was forcibly dragged from his seat on a United Airlines flight the other day because the airline had oversold tickets for it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s pretty amazing. \u00a0Even if you have, it\u2019s worth reading these two pieces:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Future students of business management and corporate communicates will study this case:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-39562182\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cNot so friendly skies: United Airlines\u2019 public relations disaster\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This David French article takes a slightly different approach. \u00a0And the Jimmy Kimmel \u201cad\u201d \u2014 don\u2019t worry; the bad language has been bleeped out \u2014\u00a0is pretty funny:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/446645\/united-341-flight-reason-what-happened-golden-rule?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Trending%20Email%20Reoccurring-%20Monday%20to%20Thursday%202017-04-11&amp;utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cUnited 3411 and the Flight from Reason\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Have you heard about the 69-year-old doctor who was forcibly dragged from his seat on a United Airlines flight the other day because the airline had oversold tickets for it? \u00a0 If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s pretty amazing. \u00a0Even if you have, it\u2019s worth reading these two pieces: \u00a0 Future students of business management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A corporate PR disaster of epic proportions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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