Bob Pickard » bbc http://bobpickard.com Global communications counsel, international PR firm builder. Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Thinking about public relations http://bobpickard.com/thinking-about-public-relations/ http://bobpickard.com/thinking-about-public-relations/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:19:22 +0000 Bob Pickard http://bobpickard.com/thinking-about-public-relations/ ]]> I watched this BBC documentary series over the weekend, and it got me thinking about the origins of public relations, including its connection to psychology and early practice as propaganda. I suspect that many fellow PR people would be interested to watch The Century of the Self:

In watching the series, it struck me how so many PR people seem to know little about their own industry’s often wartime roots, and made me feel proud about how far PR has progressed ethically and in terms of sophistication since its early crudely manipulative origins.

I also just wrote a rambling article on this topic, much too long for a regular blog post: Thinking about public relations.

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