Public Relations
Public Relations
Public Relations
What is PR?
the
practice of managing the communication between an organization and its publics That, of course, is the PR biz definition
History of PR
Ancient Greeks had a word for it: Sematikos: to signify or to mean Its how to get people to believe things and do things A pretty good definition of public relations This approach has been used for thousands of years
Ramses at Kadesh
Julius Caesar
John McCain
Caligula
Claudius
Propaganda
An invention of the Catholic Church 17th Century committee called Congregatio de Propaganda Fide
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin in France
Negative effects of PR
1720
P.T. Barnum
Jumbo
Tom Thumb
William Seward
Ivy Lee
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Lees PR Principles
1. Tell the truth 2. Provide accurate facts 3. The public relations director must have access to top management and must be able to influence decisions
Lees definition of PR
Public
relations means the actual relationship of the company to the people and that relationship involves more than talk. The company must act by performing good deeds.
Edward Bernays
interpret the client to the public, which means promoting the client To interpret the public to the client, which means operating the company in such a way as to gain the approval of the public
1. Public relations is a public service 2. Public relations should promote new ideas and progress 3. Public relations should build a public conscience
Advertising is the nonpersonal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or ideas by identified sponsors through the various media. PR is also the nonpersonal communication of information
Advertising must pay for its placement in the media PR does its best not to pay for placement
Writes news articles and feature stories called news releases promoting the client and tries to get them published Puts on staged publicity events in hopes the media will cover them
PR can be about products, services or ideas Can also be about companies or people
Entertainers Politicians Wanna bes
identified sponsors
Advertising has to identify the sponsor PR tries to avoid identifying whos paying for the output
Leave it out Disguise it
Crisis Management
Exxon Valdez