{"id":375,"date":"2009-11-23T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-11-23T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:37:32","slug":"the_cameron_poole_affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/11\/the_cameron_poole_affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cameron Poole Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

I figured you’d all want my expert publicist opinion on Cameron Poole and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Here goes: one of your employees stealing \u00a3560,000 from your publicly-funded organization makes for Bad Publicity. <\/p>\n

And that’s why they pay me the medium-sized bucks. <\/p>\n

But who couldn’t love this headline?<\/p>\n

Orchestra boss ‘on the fiddle to the tune of \u00a3560,000 to fund luxury lifestyle’<\/b><\/font><\/h1>\n

Or this chipmunk-cheek probably-from-Facebook photo?<\/p>\n

\"CameronPoole.jpg\"I mean, really? The Daily Mail <\/i>couldn’t find a more official image? If any of my clients started stealing from orchestras because they had three kids under three years-old and conservative politico ex wives, I would at least make sure a nice headshot went out.<\/p>\n

Sadly, no one involved seems to be talking to the press. The orchestra declining comment strikes me as odd, but I don’t know the gory details so will not judge; I’m sure it’s all wildly complicated. If anything, though, shouldn’t they have been the ones to make the announcement? Get ahead of the story breaking? <\/p>\n

Yesterday, Luke Hibbert, a solicitor with Kester Cunningham John
\nwhich is representing Mr Poole, said: ‘I don’t talk to the Press.’<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the orchestra declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This morning, the excellent Twitter feed<\/a> of BBC Music Magazine<\/i><\/a> pointed out that the UK’s Evening Standard<\/i><\/a> got the London Symphony and the London Philharmonic confused both by name and photo in their initial report. Awesome!<\/p>\n

\"BCCMusicTweet.jpg\"Sometimes, though, as a publicist I’m torn: these unmitigated disasters for classical music–smuggling, broken instruments–usually result in mainstream press coverage. No, I’m not advocating scandal and despair as press tactics, but it does make me think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I figured you’d all want my expert publicist opinion on Cameron Poole and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Here goes: one of your employees stealing \u00a3560,000 from your publicly-funded organization makes for Bad Publicity. And that’s why they pay me the medium-sized bucks. But who couldn’t love this headline? Orchestra boss ‘on the fiddle to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}