by Gordon Hensley | Sep 25, 2025 | Communications, Journalism Standards, Media Relations, Television, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
Trashing “the media” at-large has become a national pastime. But its worth noting that CBS News made a quiet, positive, seismic shift in political journalism earlier this month. After complaints from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the editing of her...
by Gordon Hensley | Jun 9, 2025 | advocacy, Business, Communications, lobbying, Media Relations, state government, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
From PR Week and PR Daily to Gotham Ghostwriters and Axios the demise of op-eds as a content-sharing vehicle is a discussion worth having. And per usual, those proclaiming simply “Yes” and “No” are wrong. The real answer is “No —...
by Gordon Hensley | May 10, 2024 | advocacy, Business, Communications, GOP Politics, lobbying, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
It’s been almost 40 years since then-Wall Street Journal stars Jeff Birnbaum and Alan Murray wrote their seminal 1987 masterpiece Showdown at Gucci Gulch detailing passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — the single most sweeping U.S. tax...
by Gordon Hensley | Apr 19, 2024 | advocacy, Communications, U.S. House, U.S. Senate |
Despite the fact I support efforts in Congress requiring Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok, I have to say that the social media giant created one of the best pieces of advocacy content I’ve seen in a long time. Released by TikTok’s government...
by Gordon Hensley | Feb 21, 2019 | advocacy, Business, CMS, health care, lobbying, Medicare Cuts, Pharma, U.S. House, U.S. Senate
Among the most complex but significant issues in the unfolding debate about prescription drug pricing reform is pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) rebates — or, so-called “rebates” — as many objective observers see them as kickbacks or opaque...
by Gordon Hensley | Mar 15, 2018 | Campaign 2018, GOP Politics, taxes, Trump, U.S. House
Former National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Davis remains one of the smartest, savviest, streetwise political wise men in Washington — and he landed over at MSNBC yesterday to talk with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Daily about PA-18...
