Ethics of Tobacco PR Argued by Holmes, Cohen
Thu, Sep. 18, 2014
By Jack O'Dwyer
Paul Holmes of The Holmes Report and ex-New York Times “Ethicist” columnist Randy Cohen argued heatedly Sept. 8 about the ethics of repping tobacco (Holmes favoring it).
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Paul Holmes of The Holmes Report and ex-New York Times “Ethicist” columnist Randy Cohen argued heatedly Sept. 8 about the ethics of repping tobacco (Holmes favoring it).
PR’s effort to destroy mainstream media has succeeded beyond its “wildest imagination,” lawyer Delbert Spurlock told the ethics panel of PRSA/New York Sept. 8.
A 16-page transcript of the "Trial of PR" staged by PRSA/New York has been purchased by the O’Dwyer Co. for access by readers.
The eight PRSA/NY ethics panelists, seven of them self-employed, will get O’Dwyer exhibits including the 1999 study that found “PR Specialist” ranked 43rd on a list of 45 credible info sources.
Delbert Spurlock, a lawyer who was EVP of the New York Daily News from 1993-2010, has joined the PRSA/NY "Mock Trial" of PR Monday as a press advocate.
Atlantic mag's Olga Khazan has done a 3,766-word essay on the preponderance of women in PR that touches on many of PR’s opportunities, pressures and problems.
Lawsuits by Omnicom and three other companies against small stockholder John Chevedden in four different U.S. district courts are a threat to corporate democracy by exerting a “chilling effect” on stockholder actions, he charges.
Omnicom's suit against stockholder John Chevedden is an instance of management wanting to protect its ability to know how stockholders are voting while deying that info to dissident groups.
Ethics generates lots of talk in PR but little action on thorny subjects such as criticisms of J&J’s handling of the Tylenol murders, trade groups sitting on their tax returns, “secret societies” like PR Seminar, reporters blocked and/or threatened with physical harm, etc.
The Society of Professional Journalists, asked if the 16-page undercover report on the Starkey private service school in the January Harper’s was “ethical,” has responded with an answer that tosses the question into the laps of our readers.
Emmanuel Tchividjian, chief ethics officer at Ruder Finn, has earned the annual President's Award for his outstanding contributions to PRSA's New York chapter.
"'PR is not like the law,'" said Richard Edelman, quoting his later father, Dan, before an audience of 185 at the Bryant Park Grill, New York, last night. Edelman, who accepted the Paladin Award of the Foundation of PRSA in behalf of his father, said Dan believed that "not everyone deserves representation."
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