Air Force One Flyover Tops 2009 PR Blunders List

Fineman PR issued their 15th annual Top 10 PR Blunders List this week, and the Department of Defense’s Air Force One Manhattan flyover photo-op topped the list. White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera lost his job over the ill-conceived photo op.

We asked Michael Fineman why Tiger didn’t make the list, and what story was #1 in 1994 when he began the tradition. “The Tiger Woods situation represented a tragic personal moral failure, not a PR blunder,” Fineman told us.

The first “winner” was a Washington, D.C.

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