tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016845068522958828.post6738498301336463043..comments2008-06-10T14:21:12.793-07:00Comments on How I learned to stop worrying and love PR: Why we should care about our bad reputationHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07458214786618742696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016845068522958828.post-64728036188010219552008-05-23T08:20:00.000-07:002008-05-23T08:20:00.000-07:00Sorry it took so long for me to drop in Hannah. En...Sorry it took so long for me to drop in Hannah. End of semester rush kept me out of the blogosphere. I can tell you first-hand that the Samantha Jones character has influenced how young people view PR. We spend the first two weeks in PR Principles dispelling myths about party planning for celebrities.<BR/><BR/>You make an excellent point about reaching kids while they're still in high school -- and my follow-up post on the "girls in PR" topic presents some ways to do this. Hope you'll check it out.<BR/><BR/>To really reach a broad high school population with PR for PR, we'll need the help of groups like PRSA and IABC. And most of the folks active in those organizations are already spread pretty thin.<BR/><BR/>I will tell you that our diversity officer in the Kent State School of Journalism does a good bit of outreach to kids from inner-city schools. And it's working. Some 20% of my Case Studies students this past year were from minority groups, considerably more than the KSU population overall. Not one of my Case Studies students was male!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016845068522958828.post-87070477311658492822008-05-19T19:13:00.000-07:002008-05-19T19:13:00.000-07:00Interesting observation. It's clear that there is...Interesting observation. It's clear that there is a vast misunderstanding of the entire field of public relations, because most of what the people see is when PR fails. The perception is summed up in the cynical phrase PR stunt," signifying that PR is nothing more than a campaign of cutting losses and saving face, rather than the everyday functions of ordinary public relations. It's quite ironic that, as you observed, the public hardly has relations with public relations practitioners.Matt P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835555879687873658noreply@blogger.com