I've got to confess I'm a magazine publisher who gets pestered by PR companies for my media planner, forward features list etc, which I always send them, thinking that they may be helping me sell my advertising. Anyway, I bought the book because I wanted to find out what PR people actually did (they certainly didn't generate any advertising for me!). Shock, horror, the book explained that PR companies go to (my) clients and tell them not to take paid adverts, but to submit articles for publication instead. The PR company appears to get paid with my foregone advertising revenue. Ouch, we now have a comprehensive internal policy for all PR company interactions.