Totoya Recalls: From The Perch Of A PR Professional

February 20th, 2010 admin

Every business, organization and individual has a story to tell. Often the stories can be told a number of different ways. That has become obvious as Toyota Motor Sales USA and its Japanese parent struggle through the auto maker’s quality/safety crisis and related “public relations crisis” – one in which the company seems to tell a version of its story nearly every day while contradictory information keeps surfacing.


Originally posted on CTWatchDog

 
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