I see PR as being much, much worse. I also dislike marketing. It is manipulation that mostly works on a subconscious level, circumventing your rational thought

I see PR as being much, much worse. I also dislike marketing. It is manipulation that mostly works on a subconscious level, circumventing your rational thought. But with marketing, at least it's obvious who the source is, and you can make a conscious effort to avoid it. With PR, where pushing highly biased news articles on various news outlets is common, it's much harder.