Media Culpa

Suspicions that GM would kill the Saab brand might have decreased lately since the car have seen a boost with the Aero X concept vehicle and a new advertising campaign “has raised its exposure and helped increase sales”, according to the Detroit News.

“Any questioning of Saab’s future is over,” Jay Spenchian, general manager of Saab USA, said.

Saab sold 10,847 cars worldwide in April, an increase by 2,5 percent compared to the same month in 2005. The US is the largest market, with 50 percent more sold cars than in Sweden.

Tags: Saab, GM, brand. [Via Agenda Inc.]

Here are a few interesting stories from around the PR blogosphere:

Niall Cook writes about how his insurance company is giving him, a loyal customer, a worse deal than new customers. Needless to say, he switched company.

Piaras Kelly notes that Irish companies start to get media coverage from their blogs.

Steve Rubel posts about an ad agency that has sued a blogger. Not necessarily good PR.

Columnist Linda Skugge promotes her new blog “Things that grow”, which costs 69 kronor to read, by sending out emails with the initial blog posts. Mickey J has the screenshots and he doesn’t seem excessively impressed. [Via Beta Alpha 2.0]

Update: Mickey claims he knows (how???) that Skugge has 111 paying subscribers, which equals 7.659 kronor for a couple of months of blogging.

William Swanson, chief executive of Raytheon, will not get a raise this year and will see his restricted stock get cut by 20 percent because he was caught with plagiarism of a book. Guess who discovered the story? A blogger, of course.