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Archive for June, 2008

Harold Burson: Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call

By: Harold Burson on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am

(The following is excerpted from a longer version published on Harold Burson’s Blog. It was written in response to a commentary by a legal commentator on CBS “Sunday Morning” who equated public relations to lying.) Never unemployed and engaged in public relations all my working life, I calculated that, in the context of the CBS “Sunday Morning” commentary, I have been lying for more than 60 years – maybe a qualification for the Guiness record book. This inference neither troubles me personally nor do I believe it harms me professionally. But I am highly irritated about what it says about the ...

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