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'At last a book on PR that doesn't see it on the one hand as the work of Satan or on the other a branch of moral philosophy. It is hard hitting, honest and stimulating.' - Lord Tim Bell, Chairman of Chime Communications plc and former PR advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher
'A clear, honest guide to all the nuts and bolts and some of the screw-ups of the industry that is subverting our news.' -Nick Davies, award-winning journalist and author of Flat Earth News
'Energetic, sophisticated, witty and deadly serious: this important book dissects the role of PR in a novel and challenging way.' - Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History, the University of Westminster
'Every profession should have a book like this, a mirror crafted by experience and research, and one that shows a reflection that is provocative, insightful and fun.' - Gary Davies, Professor of Corporate Reputation, Manchester Business School
'Too many books by PR people and PR academics are self-congratulatory or even dishonest. They describe what they would like PR to be, not how it is. Morris and Goldsworthy's lively and controversial account changes this. It offers an indispensable insiders' view of a burgeoning industry which looks set to play a crucial role in shaping the twenty-first century.' - Sheldon Rampton, co-author of Toxic Sludge is Good for You! and Research Director, Center for Media& Democracy, publishers of www.prwatch.org
'A very readable summary of an oft-maligned, but ultimately fascinating, profession - and one that is ever more influential. Morris and Goldsworthy tackle many of the stereotypes and professional challenges that all of us in the media face, on a daily basis.' - Danny Rogers, PR Week
'This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the media they use. The authors have inside knowledge, experience and scholarship to explore this rapidly growing industry.' - Business Executive
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Like it or loathe it, PR has become a key ingredient in our lives, but surprisingly little serious thought is given to what PR is and what its practitioners do. Glancing, usually disparaging references to PR abound, and journalists and others feel free to make overarching comments based on scant evidence, but PR remains under-examined and hard to study. The big PR firms remain shadowy, and by tradition PR people working within big organizations do not seek the limelight. If PR is an industry, it is a fragmented and diffuse one, scattered across all parts of the economy and society in thousands of small cells. In both the UK and the US, for example, the largest consultancies employ fewer than 1% of those who work in PR. Similarly even the largest companies have PR departments that rarely have more than a hundred staff and usually many fewer. PR also operates under many aliases – it seems that only a minority of practitioners like calling themselves public relations people – and its border territories with other communications and marketing disciplines are blurred and often disputed. This makes it difficult for outside observers and scholars to get to grips with PR, but also surprisingly hard for those working in PR to know their own business: no one individual has real experience of all the main areas of PR work.
PR people have represented all kinds of causes and interests, and have done so using all kinds of tactics. They have been associated with many sins: creating false pretexts for wars; political spin and skulduggery; and seeking to excuse the worst excesses of the corporate world, to the point of claiming that 'Toxic sludge is good for you!' But, equally, your favourite charity, celebrity, hospital and politician, as well as the innocuous companies you rely on to meet your day-to-day needs, use PR. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were all brilliant at public relations: Mandela still is. So, in their own ways, were Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein. Public relations is a strangely contradictory business. The authors explain some of those contradictions.
This book is essential reading not just for journalists, students and PR practitioners - whether they work in business, government or for NGOs - but for anyone concerned about the ingredients of the media they consume. The authors use a skilful blend of inside knowledge, experience and scholarship to explore this rapidly growing industry and reach new and challenging conclusions about the role PR is destined to play in the 21st century.
PR people have represented all kinds of causes and interests, and have done so using all kinds of tactics. They have been associated with many sins: creating false pretexts for wars; political spin and skulduggery; and seeking to excuse the worst excesses of the corporate world, to the point of claiming that 'Toxic sludge is good for you!' But, equally, your favourite charity, celebrity, hospital and politician, as well as the innocuous companies you rely on to meet your day-to-day needs, use PR. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were all brilliant at public relations: Mandela still is. So, in their own ways, were Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein. Public relations is a strangely contradictory business. The authors explain some of those contradictions.
This book is essential reading not just for journalists, students and PR practitioners - whether they work in business, government or for NGOs - but for anyone concerned about the ingredients of the media they consume. The authors use a skilful blend of inside knowledge, experience and scholarship to explore this rapidly growing industry and reach new and challenging conclusions about the role PR is destined to play in the 21st century.
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This review is from: PR- A Persuasive Industry?: Spin, Public Relations and the Shaping of the Modern Media: 1 (Hardcover)
This is a ground-breaking book from two exceptionally authoritative writers. It gives readers a warts-and-all picture of public relations, combining both a professional insider's knowledge with a wider academic perspective. For me, its best - and most unusual - aspect, for a PR book, is that it does exactly what it says on the tin (well, on the jacket). Without hype or over-claiming it is, as it claims "essential reading for journalists, students, PR practitioners, and anyone concerned about the media they consume...(it)explores this rapidly growing industry and reaches new and challenging conclusions". Great stuff!
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The book is interesting and intelligently designed,
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This review is from: PR- A Persuasive Industry?: Spin, Public Relations and the Shaping of the Modern Media: 1 (Hardcover)
The book is interesting and intelligently designed. Market manipulation is "tradition" for developed countries. The more developed an economy is, the more developed is fraud, corruption, white collar crime and others. The book is a good illustration of what is happening in mainstream marketing communications.
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By Emil - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: PR- A Persuasive Industry?: Spin, Public Relations and the Shaping of the Modern Media: 1 (Hardcover)
This book was required reading for my PR class in college. It was an eye opener into the PR field and the various ways that companies and individuals reach out to the public for support, sympathy, empathy, and of course, their money.
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Worth reading and taking notes,
By Marion E. Gold "Book Author & Editorial Writer" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: PR- A Persuasive Industry?: Spin, Public Relations and the Shaping of the Modern Media: 1 (Hardcover)
I actually wish this book weren't so good, because its message is truthful and sad. Public relations is an important part of our economy and society. It lets us know about new and important products and ideas. It informs us about happenings around the world that may not get enough play in the newspapers or on television news. But PR is often misused, and it takes a wise individual to tell the difference between the "hype" and the truth. For example, is the article you just read about a charity truthful - or is it a veil for a political agenda? Is the product success noted in a magazine article true - or is the person quoted a paid consultant? These are important questions for consumers to evaluate before they run out and buy a product, vote for a politician or send money to a charity. And it is certainly an important read for anyone thinking of entering the field of public relations. And, by the way - if you don't believe that truth and public relations can go hand-in-hand - please enter another field! (Reviewed by the author of Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU and Top Cops: Profiles of Women in Command)
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