We’ve recently written a few things about queries. As the spokesman for the longest war in American history, my team gets a lot of them. Generally, we get two types.
We’ve recently written a few things about queries. As the spokesman for the longest war in American history, my team gets a lot of them. Generally, we get two types.
Remember the RTQ Rules to Live By? Good. An easy thing to do is to have your organization follow a guide for answering queries. It’s great because everyone speaks a
We’ve made it. A journalist asked a question. The journalist has enough interest in our topic that he or she e-mailed us. Once you respond they are likely going to
Several years ago as a young PAO, I had some very specific and wild thoughts on how our higher headquarters should respond to a reporter’s query. I spouted off my
Alright. We’ve spent the last year writing more than 100 posts about Public Affairs. Let’s have the OPSEC talk. Traditionally, this is the program through which we hide and protect
Quick protip in the spirit of @USAWTFM_PAO who says a lot of what we write on MaxDis is common sense: Since we’re in the military and often deployed, we have
Listen to your commander talk to their boss. Do they speak in generalities? Make guesses? Struggle to find words, or constantly contradict themself? Of course not. Your commander speaks with
“I’m just trying to understand …” With these five words, reporters will crush through the Q&As you spent hours meticulously crafting in order to make the perfect series of non-answers.
I coached kid’s soccer. Each season we played a very talented team and they beat us, until we prepared. This team, who we referred to as, “The World Cup 9
“How did I do, PAO?” the leader asked after the interview. “I have no idea Sir,” the good PAO answers. “We’ll see when the story comes out.” The crappy PAO