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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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Ways to Open Dialogue, Ease Tension During Times of Tragedy

PRSay

The two recent nightclub mass shootings in Fort Myers and Orlando, Florida, the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a number of other horrific mass shootings, along with the increased incidents of tragic deaths among African Americans, as well as police officers, leave us with feelings of helplessness, anger and fear.

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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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Is It Right to Sell Others Short?

Mindful Marketing

However, even with this regulatory approval, the practice should raise at least two red flags, or moral concerns, that lead one to ask: Is short selling ethical? Before addressing the two concerns, I imagine some may be wondering what short selling has to do with marketing—the other half of this blog’s two-pronged focus.

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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 Intersection of Bias, Ethics and PR Stunts in Media Relations. A high profile blog was “tipped off” to the feigned outrage and the rest of the media then picked up on it and duly reported the incident as controversy. Yet the voice of reason isn’t just ethical, it’s an inspirational way to communicate. Say whatever you want?

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

Sword and the Script

But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post. According to my reading of the 2019 Report on the State of the Legal Market , by the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law and the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute – an industry benchmark – some firms are doing better than others.

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

Stephen Waddington

Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias. The research examined a huge corpus of blog posts and discovered that relationships are formed at a nexus in values. They suggest that this singular focus on public relations within organisations overlooks the social world in which those organisations operate.