Pivot on Facebook PR

How Nick Clegg & co. Game the Media

Of all the media hats that Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway wear, it’s the Pivot podcast that brings out the best in both of them. Sure Kara’s “Sway” draws an eclectic mix of boldfaced names and “The ProfG Show” gets philosophical and downright wonky in exploring today’s most salient business trends and issues. But, together, the back and forth banter of these two astute observers of the technosphere and life itself strikes a most engaging and resonant chord, at least for me.

Today’s episode opened with their respective thumbs up, from different perspectives, of Monica Lewinsky’s HBO Max doc “15 Minutes of Shame,” which examines public shaming and cancel culture through the eyes of someone who knows a thing or two about the subject.

The hosts soon pivoted to Nick Clegg of Facebook’s recent media charm offensive, which prompted me to pen this post. It’s not just that Clegg, a forked-tongue Brit, knows how to suck up the live TV airtime with obfuscatory blather on everything Facebook supposedly is doing to ferret out the miscreants and militiamen on its…