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P.T. Barnum: “There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”

Doctor Spin

This was done by embracing controversy, using storytelling to his advantage, and sometimes, pushing ethical boundaries. Today’s leaders can draw from Barnum’s playbook, albeit ethically, by using powerful narratives and effective public relations strategies to garner attention and influence their stakeholders. 3 Chryssochoou, X.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Others now describe themselves as storytellers, content curators or narrators. The second issue relates to a blog post write by Lisa Kovitz on the Edelman Global Practices site following the death of Robin Williams. Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ).