It is, George Beres says, hard to believe we’ve reached this point. Sad truth is, however, an increasing number of Americans don’t understand that public relations and journalism have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
They don’t understand, he says, that a journalist’s job involves getting the facts and reporting them in a straightforward, honest way. Whereas a PR person is “essentially operating in behalf of a client and uses facts selectively to paint as attractive an image as possible.” And sometimes PR people lie.