Strive Notes

“How successful the whole thing was is really for others to gauge, but from our perspective we’re just very pleased we managed it, and kept a lid on it for 10 weeks. PR and media relations are often looked down upon by the private sector, but I think we’ve shown them what we can do now. The MoD also gets kicked hard when it gets things wrong, but I don’t think we got anything wrong here. We certainly had our critics, but in general I think most British people have accepted that it was the right thing to do.”

Agreed. On the whole the British people seem to have accepted it was the right thing to do.  But was the motive purely the security of the Prince and the people serving with him? Without the carrot of thousands of inches of positive coverage for the MoD and guaranteed access for the media, would the blackout have held?

I don’t know.  You tell me.

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