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

Doctor Spin

Ahead of others in his time, he actually understood the importance of media coverage (he started New York’s first illustrated newspaper in 1853) and believed ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity,’ a popular phrase many times attributed to Barnum himself.” — Ashley Foster, APR 1 The End of a Publicity Era: How Ringling Bros. Berkowitz (Ed.),

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) exist to protect the rights of copyright holders. Whether that will contribute to the reputation or sales for your organisation is another thing entirely. What’s the purpose and value of the CLA and NLA? It’s a reasonable enough purpose.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

First, along with other British-based PR consultancies, it was questioned by the Guardian newspaper about whether it would rule out working with climate change deniers. Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ).

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Turn Off the Cloaked Reporter in this Transparent World

Bad Pitch Blog

The client’s reputation is at stake. The right comment on the right blog can have a bigger impact on the bottom line than an uninteresting quote in some shrunken newspaper! How will that reporter feel if I find out what she’s all about and then go: “Oh, I’m sorry, he’s, er, unavailable” because I don’t want it anymore?

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