Day: June 13, 2025

Who Had the Worst Week?

~ Jeremy Story ~ 1 Comment
  • Boulder‘s Comprise PR, formerly MAPR and Metzger before that, has shut down following a bankruptcy filing. Owner Doyle Albee had hoped to reorganize and survive the filing, but he said that former employees who poached clients had made that impossible. Albee and most of the remaining employees are moving to California-based Hawke Media, which touts its “10 years of marketing domination.”
  • The crash of an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London killed at least 269 people. It is India’s worst aviation disaster in decades.  
  • Journalist Terry Moran is out at ABC News after he tweeted that top White House aide Stephen Miller is a “world-class hater” whose “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.” Because truth is an absolute defense against defamation claims, ABC News doesn’t need to worry about a lawsuit, but they nonetheless wanted to stay on President Donald Trump‘s good side.
  • Conservatives weren’t happy several years ago when major brands declined to advertise on Twitter/X for political reasons, so much so that the FTC is trying to include a prohibition on that as a formal requirement for approving a merger between marketing conglomerates Omnicom and Interpublic Group.
  • Miami-Dade police are searching for oft-troubled former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown on a charge of attempted murder. Brown was allegedly involved in a shooting during a celebrity boxing event in Miami last month.
  • Former Denver Public Schools board member Auon’tai Anderson continues to harbor delusions of grandeur. Two years ago, he was censured for flirting with a 16-year-old student and he then declined to run for re-election after polls found that he had the support of only 9% of respondents. So, of course, this week, Anderson teased a possible run to rejoin the board, perhaps in 2027.
  • University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders is dealing with an unspecified health issue that has caused him to miss the team’s annual summer football camps. There is no announced timeframe for his return.
  • FIFA introduced dynamic pricing for tickets to this summer’s inaugural Club World Cup that will take place in the U.S., and it is not going well. Tickets for the opening match between Inter Miami (featuring soccer superstar Lionel Messi) and Egyptian team Al-Ahly are going for as little as $4.
  • The Dyson bandits – two brothers who stole nearly $30,000 worth Dyson vacuum cleaners and other items from Denver-area Targets and resold them – have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in prison.
  • The Denver City Council has authorized another $400,000 in settlement payments to protesters injured by police during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The latest payment means that Denver has now paid nearly $20 million in settlements to protesters injured that summer.
  • If you had actress Olivia Munn and children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel in a blood feud, well, you are more prescient than I am. It’s gotten so bad that People magazine had to remove an online article about them because of the violent threats it triggered.
  • City engineers have warned city council members that two bridges in Denver may soon be off limits to ambulances and other heavy vehicles due to deteriorating conditions. What’s worse is the two bridges are located within blocks of Denver Health.
  • If you are from the Pacific Northwest, there’s at least a decent chance you are a serial killer.

Who won the week?