There has long been a debate about whether Public Relations needs re-branding, not least to escape the ugly moniker of “spin” and to make it fit-for-purpose in the Social Digital age. PR is of course the brainchild of Edward Bernays, born in an age of institutional authority, inter-mediation and “media relations” – all of which now border on the irrelevant.
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