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I've made this point before; there are 5 PR people for every reporter in the US. https://muckrack.com/blog/2016/04/14/america-now-has-nearly-5-pr-people-for-ev
by scottlocklin 8y ago
I've made this point before; there are 5 PR people for every reporter in the US.
https://muckrack.com/blog/2016/04/14/america-now-has-nearly-5-pr-people-for-every-reporter-double-the-rate-from-a-decade-ago https://muckrack.com/blog/2016/04/14/america-now-has-nearly-...
That and the fact that various parts of the 'expert class' has largely discredited itself; from the replication crisis to the death of physics as a field .... we don't need to blame bots; the trust level is low.
- bilbo0s 8y ago>there are 5 PR people for every reporter in the US... And the PR people are, in general, far better paid.
- dwaltrip 8y agoPhysics is not dead...
- DataWorker 8y agoAuthority doesn’t scale the way some would like. The ramifications are far reaching.
- mercer 8y agoI can't vouch for its veracity (bit ironic), but I heard there's 10 lobbyists for every politician in Brussels. Or at least some depressing number.