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Information Asymmetry: The Informed Minority Advantage

Doctor Spin

Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for analysing markets with asymmetric information. The Mole (TV Series, 2001–2008). Ethical Implications of Information Asymmetry In the 2nd century BCE, the Greek Stoics told the tale of the Merchant of Rhodes. Doctor Spin | The PR Blog. Doctor Spin | The PR Blog.

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. And let’s not think about ethics – or social justice – or worry about feminism, when clearly all women are bothered about is bread.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post. By the way, the WSJ reporter on that byline used to write for PRWeek).

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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

The days of objectivity are gone and the days of combative, aggressive, argumentative ‘in your face’ journalism has taken its place.”. The Intersection of Bias, Ethics and PR Stunts in Media Relations. Yet the voice of reason isn’t just ethical, it’s an inspirational way to communicate. Say whatever you want?

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

In a paper for the Journal of Public Relations Research[v] Michael Karlberg makes the case that the Excellence Theory is overly concerned with consumers as a primary audience. Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias. Table 3: Academic criticism of the Excellence Theory.

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

As my paper will be included in the IHPRC proceedings in due course, I am not going to explain my research philosophy or go into further detail of the methodology and resulting arguments in this blog post. Ethical challenges arise as Saunders et al (2015) contend, from accessibility online of private as well as public information.

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Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

As my paper will be included in the IHPRC proceedings in due course, I am not going to explain my research philosophy or go into further detail of the methodology and resulting arguments in this blog post. Ethical challenges arise, as Saunders et al (2015) contend, from accessibility online of private as well as public information.