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Public Relations Defined, Part II

*    *    * Public relations is the systematic study and strategic design of organizational identity and behavior in relation to all else, human or otherwise. *    *    * So, what is public relations? It’s a question I’d vowed to answer … Continue reading

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Defining public relations … almost

My earlier post of May 29 , which touched on the issue of mislabeling propaganda as public relations — Capstrat and its BCBS storyboards being the illustration at hand — might have left readers begging the question, “So, Andrew, what … Continue reading

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Not PR, just plain propaganda

If there’s one thing that nags the bejesus out of me, it’s when I hear something characterized as “public relations” when it doesn’t even closely resemble that discipline … which is quite a lot of the time, frankly.  The Washington … Continue reading

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