{"id":870,"date":"2007-08-23T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=870"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T21:16:21","slug":"i-love-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/i-love-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I love this"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I ONCE HAD A GIRLFRIEND WHO QUIT JOURNALISM and went into P.R. because she said public-relations work was ‘more ethical.'”<\/p>\n

lol<\/p>\n

That’s an Instapundit<\/a> lead-in to a link to this piece, about journalists cheating on an online poll.<\/p>\n

As a PR professional, I will say this — about my firm, anyway.<\/p>\n

First, our advocacy, when we go to work for our clients, is at least out in the open.<\/p>\n

And second, we take credibility seriously, because we have to — if we lose it, our clients get upset with us and we stop making money.<\/p>\n

Journalists, otoh — the bad eggs, anyway — seem to think more short term. “If I write a good fake story it will get me a full-time gig at this magazine\/win me a Pulitzer\/save me having to run around doing actual research.” Forgetting that, ultimately, their shenanigans paint everything it touches with a big ol’ tarnish brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I ONCE HAD A GIRLFRIEND WHO QUIT JOURNALISM and went into P.R. because she said public-relations work was ‘more ethical.’” lol That’s an Instapundit lead-in to a link to this piece, about journalists cheating on an online poll. As a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6290,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}