[Note: This was written as a submission for another blog.] My list of pet peeves about journalists: Lack of homework, or any attempt at doing homework, about the topic at hand. This is more true for television journalists. I quite often take calls at the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources where questions asked [...]
September 17, 2008
Lest we forget, the ‘public’ in public relations refers to the constituents to which we are accountable. So it irks me to hear about my colleagues who use their public relations positions to attempt to mold and control news stories to bizarre degrees. (When I was in a past position being encouraged to do [...]
July 30, 2008
If the average person knew how much of what they consume of daily news originates from or is influenced in some way by a public relations effort, it would likely blow minds. But such is the nature of the news (and PR) business. There’s an uncomfortable symbiosis between reporters and PR people that is both [...]
September 26, 2008
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