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

Doctor Spin

His innovative marketing techniques and relentless pursuit of the extraordinary laid the groundwork for many modern public relations strategies. This was done by embracing controversy, using storytelling to his advantage, and sometimes, pushing ethical boundaries. Phineas Taylor (P.T.) 3 Chryssochoou, X. and Volpato, C.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Others now describe themselves as storytellers, content curators or narrators. Likewise, I’m concerned by those who say PR is marketing, yet display little understanding of the underpinnings of either domain. Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ).