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FRAUD ALERT. Beware of offers of investment, money, urgent deals, and confidential findings of relative's inheritances. I get at least three a week, and they are all "419" scams. View in LinkedIn

SLIPPERY SLOPE UPWARDS. "In the 1970s and 1980s, it was advertising and marketing types who had the ear of the boss. In the 1990s, it was the strategists' turn, while in the noughties it was HR people leading the war for talent who were in favour. Now the comms chief is the individual that the CEO and chairman require to be right behind them." http://lnkd.in/d_VsWte View in LinkedIn

RISE OF PR LEADERS. "PR people are starting to make it to the top of businesses. John Fallon, ex-corporate affairs chief at publisher Pearson, will become its CEO next year. At ... GlaxoSmithKline, Duncan Learmouth, ex-head of global communications ... And our prime minister was once head of comms for Carlton Television." (Tiny Blaire). http://lnkd.in/d_VsWte View in LinkedIn

RISE OF SPIN, DEMISE OF JOURNALISM. "There are now four PRs for every journalist working in the global media industry. These 'public relations executives' enjoy more influence than ever before ... Flacks, goes the cliche, spend their days chatting up hacks and burying bad news." http://lnkd.in/d_VsWte View in LinkedIn

PR LANDSCAOE. "With 2200 public relations flacks in over 30 countries, Burson-Marsteler is the world's largest public relations firm. They represent big-name corporations (Philip Morris, AT & T, NBC), foreign nations (the governments of Indonesia, El Salvador, Kenya) and heavy-duty non-governmental organizations (the World Bank, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the American Petroleum Institute)."" "ttp://http://lnkd.in/drkjSke View in LinkedIn

OVER HALF YOUR NEWS IS SPIN. "Crikey found that nearly 55% of stories analysed were driven by some form of public relations." http://lnkd.in/dmdr9Qx View in LinkedIn

MUCH OF NEWS IS ACTUALLY SPIN. "Whether you hear the news on NPR or your local morning shock jock, read the New York Times or USA Today, watch C-Span or the nightly news, an enormous percentage of the news you take in will be the direct result of somebody's spin." http://www.ratical.org/ratville/PRnation.html View in LinkedIn

ILLEGITIMATE PR. "I think the history of public relations is a primarily illegitimate one. Most of it is about packaging reality to benefit powerful clients. If one is accurately telling the history, there are certain moments when businesses feel that their interests are so threatened, where some of what they do in the name of PR is actual policy." (Stuart Ewen). http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/ewentext.html View in LinkedIn

SIXTY MINUTE MAKEOVER? "The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) has declared this September as "Ethics Awareness Month," complete with "The New Era of Authenticity" as a theme. There’s also a Google+ Hangout on PR ethics, webinars and a #PRethics hashtag." http://lnkd.in/dU66juh View in LinkedIn

"SPINWATCH investigates the way that the public relations (PR) industry and corporate and government propaganda distort public debate and undermine democracy. The PR and lobbying industry in the UK is the second biggest in the world, worth £7.5 billion." http://lnkd.in/d-DmMUW View in LinkedIn