10 Yetis Examples of Good and Bad PR – Monday 20th January 2020

It’s Blue Monday and I hope you’re not feeling as down as you would normally feel on a Monday. I’m here to bring a little bit of sunshine in your life with this week’s good and bad PR, so let’s leave the bad till last and start off with a bit of good…

Good PR

So as of today, schools are able to start ordering free sanitary products for pupils. This is great news since the recent talk of period poverty and some girls not being able to afford sanitary products and therefore leaving them to skip school because of it.

Girls don’t choose to have periods and sanitary products are a necessity, not luxury so they should be free! Hopefully this will see girls more open to talk about it and no longer need to skip school because of not being able to afford them.

We’re pretty much more than half way through January now and it has been a great month for Veganuary and many companies jumping on board to show their new vegan ranges. Pret A Manager is the latest to launch 15 new vegan products, making going vegan easier than ever!

The new range consists of salad bowls, smoothies and wraps and consists of mainly fruit and veg rather than meat replacements which is different to some other companies who has tried to include meat substitutes to their ranges.

Before we know it, we’ll all be living on a plant-based diet – chicken who?

Bad PR

Microsoft Windows 10 has undergone some bad publicity over the weekend as nearly one billion users could be affected by a rare warning that was issued by the US National Security Agency.

The news comes after it possibly allows hackers to bypass protections and run their own malicious software, With more than 900 million PC’s that have Microsoft Windows 10, it leaves a lot of people that could be badly affected, they are encouraged to download a patch fixing problem in a bid to avoid any problems, but with so many people potentially affected, there is no doubt some will slip through the net of not downloading the patch fixing installation.

Snapchat is also under fire this week as drug dealers are using the app to target children as young as 14 with class A drugs. Dealers can easily showcase the drugs they have on offer to a wide range of audiences who have the app downloaded on their phone whilst also offering deals and advertisements by private message. Snapchat should put more laws into place to stop this kind of advertisement of drugs or have the accounts shut down if they are being misused for illegal use.