{"id":4614,"date":"2011-03-02T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=4597#comment-16144"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:12:24","slug":"comment-on-title-irony-why-journalists-like-to-do-pr-on-prs-by-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/middle-east-life\/middle-east-entertainment-analysis\/comment-on-title-irony-why-journalists-like-to-do-pr-on-prs-by-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Title Irony: Why Journalists like to do PR on PRs by David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Alex may sort of have a point here. Journalists, and I claim to be one (but who does not nowadays!) are not letting the readers or viewers the chance to filter the information, to take on board it is a PR person who is speaking. We hide that information to give more credibility to the story.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if it is a story about social media, for example, what matters most is the credentials in that space. It is perfectly legitimate therefore to ignore the PR bit and focus on a person&#8217;s blogger credentials. If it was a wider story on the IT industry where that person may have clients, then to hide the title would be misleading.<\/p>\n<p>So I think the bit that is missing in the article is the context angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Alex may sort of have a point here. Journalists, and I claim to be one (but who does not nowadays!) are not letting the readers or viewers the chance to filter the information, to take on board it is a PR person who is speaking. We hide that information to give more credibility to the story.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if it is a story about social media, for example, what matters most is the credentials in that space. It is perfectly legitimate therefore to ignore the PR bit and focus on a person&#8217;s blogger credentials. If it was a wider story on the IT industry where that person may have clients, then to hide the title would be misleading.<\/p>\n<p>So I think the bit that is missing in the article is the context angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}