Public Relations and the Press: The Troubled Embrace

by Karla Gower and Kurt Andersen

We are living in what one author describes as "highly promotional times." Governments and corporations, nonprofits and special interest groups, all have spin doctors trying to turn the news to their advantage. This increasingly incestuous connection between the practitioners of public relations and journalism has resulted in a troubling shift in power. Public Relations and the Press examines how this shift came to be and explores the questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124343
• ISBN13: 9780810124349
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"