{"id":1236,"date":"2007-12-31T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/dirty-hotel-glasses-fodder-for-more-tv-i-team-stories\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:02:38","slug":"dirty-hotel-glasses-fodder-for-more-tv-i-team-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/dirty-hotel-glasses-fodder-for-more-tv-i-team-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty hotel glasses: Fodder for more TV I-team stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Publicity Hounds have responded to the items you’ve read here<\/a> and here<\/a>,\u00a0about\u00a0the Atlanta TV station’s I-team report <\/a>on dirty hotel glasses, than any other item in recently memory.<\/p>\n

An observation:<\/p>\n

I half-expected the PR departments at Embassy Suites, Sheraton Suites and the Holiday Inn in Atlanta to email me and explain improvements they’ve made to their housekeeping as a result of the I-team video.\u00a0 After all, don’t savvy Publicity Hounds create Google Alerts<\/a>\u00a0 so they know what people like me are saying about them online, and then follow up with journalists and bloggers to tell their side of the story?\u00a0 Don’t they try to do damage control?\u00a0 So far, I haven’t heard from anybody representing those hotels.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n

A warning:<\/p>\n

All you hotel PR people, don’t be surprised if your hotel is the target of an I-team investigation like the one in Atlanta.\u00a0 When a story like that one uncovers wrongdoing, you can bet that one or more other stations will do an identical I-team story.<\/p>\n

Creating Google alerts, and responding to bad news stories, are integral to your 2008 media plan.\u00a0 I discussed both of those topics and hundreds of others during my teleseminar series “How to Create a Media Plan.”\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Publicity Hounds have responded to the items you’ve read here and here,\u00a0about\u00a0the Atlanta TV station’s I-team report on dirty hotel glasses, than any other item in recently memory. An observation: I half-expected the PR departments at Embassy Suites, Sheraton Suites and the Holiday Inn in Atlanta to email me and explain improvements they’ve made\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","iawp_total_views":8,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[168,620,29,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-1236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-crisis-communications","8":"tag-how-to-interview","9":"tag-media-relations","10":"tag-promotions","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40869,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/40869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}