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Maxim Behar: Social media is the realm of free speech, which makes our world better

Maxim Behar

Twenty to twenty-five years ago, we fought for diversity of opinions on television and in newspapers. An established media outlet - a newspaper, television, television channel, or radio - can also publish wrong information. In a newspaper, you first have to report the information, then the newspaper has to be printed and distributed.

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Ricky Gervais is right (and wrong) about the local paper

Prakkypedia

In Ricky Gervais’s latest TV series, After Life , he’s a writer at a free community newspaper. After several grumpy episodes interviewing local people about their so-called “stories”, Ricky’s character has an epiphany. There are softer, more intangible results which can be meaningful for internal stakeholders over years to come.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. The answers are starting to feel repetitive and formulaic.

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The Top 10 PR Disasters in 2021

Prohibition

Burger King sent out a tweet, on International Women’s Day 2021, that read: “Women belong in the kitchen.” Facebook got caught keeping secrets. This year Facebook learned that its audience doesn’t take kindly to the platform keeping secrets. #LoveIsland Matt Hancock memes that are circulating are literally making my night! ????

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The Changing Face of Public Relations in Government; Off Script #30: Merritt Allen of Vox Optima

Sword and the Script

So, with the help of a retired, if not grumpy, master chief petty officer , I invited her to a Q&A interview and she obliged. Our adversaries, whether major international powers or small insurgent groups, rely on misinformation and use communication with the press as a tool of information warfare.

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Get to Know Minnesota Business Magazine: Interview with Editor Steve LeBeau

MaccaPR

With the exit of former editor Steve Mollman, the MaccaPR blog was pleased to interview the new editor-in-chief of. I illustrate this for people with my hands: If you only get your news from newspapers and TV, hold your hands six inches apart – that’s all the news you’re getting. Paul Pioneer Press , the weekly. Star Tribune ’s.

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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies. I won’t be predicting that Whisper is the next Twitter or Snapchat is the next Facebook. Almost 70% of Facebook time is spent on mobile.