What if PR Was Illegal?

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Author: Lance Winslow

Article source: http://worldthinktank.net/. Used with author's permission.

What if public relations were illegal? Well it kind of is if you think about it; for instance if you embellish a story which is construed as advertising then it could be considered false and misleading? If you were to make a statement and someone complained to a Federal Agency or States Attorneys General Office they might come to investigate you? If you had a customer or shareholder which said they used that information to make a decision to buy your product or stock well you could be sued by an attorney in a private right of action; lawsuit? If enough people got together you could be looking at a class action lawsuit as well.

Now public relations is legal if you are a government agency, as long as you bullshit and lie to the American People. If you tell them they are safe from criminals, fraud or International Terrorism when you know damn good and well they are in immediate danger? Or if you are government agency you can tell the consumers, citizens and investors that they are safe from SPAM or Identity Theft because your forceful agency has now made a rule or law and brought 60 cases to court which will take a year to bring to trial, meanwhile there are 60,000 scoundrels out there SPAMMING and countless criminals stealing your personal information. As well as many government agencies, which make the information available to all. In fact Public Relations is fine if you are the government. And defrauding the American Taxpayers, consumers and the American People using tactics of misrepresentation and misleading information is fine as long as you are a government agency and no one can sue you either. Think on this, as we have scoundrels afoot using PR tactics to cheat us and it is not the business community doing it.