Daily newspaper and broadcast journalism is in the process of capitulating to that insidious and often irresistible attraction: the easy feed of the PR industry.
Public Relations Institute of Australia
PR and journalism: we’re on the same side
A debate on PR vs. Journalism at the Public Relations Institute of Australia recently concluded: we’re all on the same side. Or is that just what those cunning PR hacks want us to think…?
Journalism-PR myths and stereotypes busted
As early as 1926, Silas Bent reported a study of The New York Times that found 147 of the 256 news stories on one day came via PR sources, writes Jim Macnamara
Demonising your enemy: PoMC takes on Blue Wedges
The battle for Port Phillip Bay is getting nasty, with some of the Port of Melbourne Corporation’s tactics now available for all to see, writes Lionel Elmore.
Forget the scientists, bring in the spin doctors
An email from the Public Relations Institute of Australia has gone out this morning looking for volunteers for “a reserve pool of public relations practitioners… who could assist in a response to a major pest and disease emergency.”
