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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

1906–2007 The one-time ubiquitous emblem of classic PR, the press release, has technically been dead for a while now. An admittedly arbitrary but still plausibly precise date pinpointing the press release’s death might be November 6, 2007 — the day when Facebook launched its then vastly obscure, and today vastly dominant, Facebook Pages.

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Prediction: 50% of media relations positions will be eliminated in 10 years

Communications Conversations

And, it’s mostly predicated on the belief, and expectation, quite frankly, that the mainstream media will always be numero uno in the PR/marketing game. But, look how much has changed in 10 years (keep in mind, in 2007, the iPhone was invented). So, what’s the result of the market losing 50% of these jobs?

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What now for the liberal elite?

Mark My Words

But what this annus horribilis of 2016 has achieved –if nothing else positive- is to give the liberal elite a newfound sense of urgency. Tony Blair –the bogeyman-in-chief of the liberal elite- has been an outcast from British politics since he stood down in 2007 under the ignominious shadow of Iraq.