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O'Dwyer's PR News (blog)
Wikipedia, the free “encyclopedia” that has 3.8 million subject categories, is begging for contributors to flesh out its scanty, misleading entries on public relations, PR Society of America, Accreditation in PR and the Chicago Tylenol murders. ...



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thekohser
It sounds like Jack O'Dwyer just found out about Wikipedia, and he's shocked -- shocked! -- that there are many biases and inaccuracies therein.
Fusion
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Tue 3rd January 2012, 3:41pm) *

its scanty, misleading entries on public relations

I do not dissent. But who will write such? A PR professional? Surely not. That would be COI! biggrin.gif
thekohser
It looks like I'll be talking with Jack O'Dwyer later this week.
lilburne
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WP is so hooked on demanding input from “reliable” media before it will touch anything that if it were a firehouse its firefighters would refuse to respond to an alarm if only one person phoned it in. It would wait for a consensus to build among the neighbors. It might even wait for a story in the local paper.


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Oh the naivety.
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