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Enter the Golden Age of PR: Exit Reality

Schuyler Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Schuyler Brown

Brands are ditching advertising, which is really pretty transparent in its intentions, in favor of spin and PR, which really is not. This shift is partly because advertising is failing and partly because PR is right for the times.

Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Michelle Schweiger Schecter

A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

Secret Service Denies Blocking Reporters at Palin Rallies

ProPublica | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


ProPublica

"It's not a function of the Secret Service to prevent or limit reporters from interviewing the people at events," said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan. "We've never been asked by any campaign to do that."