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If the police departments are actually fortuitously finding baby ducks, sure...that's smart PR. But if the entire event is staged, that's propaganda instead of
by runnerup 4y ago
If the police departments are actually fortuitously finding baby ducks, sure...that's smart PR. But if the entire event is staged, that's propaganda instead of PR.
- squarefoot 4y agoIf it's staged, then it would border into animal mistreatment since the ducklings would have been removed from their environment to be used as prop.
- kyleyeats 4y agoIt's propaganda either way because it's funded by public money (PR is funded by private money).
- ddevault 4y agoPropaganda and PR are the same thing. The term "public relations" was invented in the wake of public sentiment turning negative regarding "propaganda" in the wake of the second world war. Prior to that PR was just called propaganda, and did not have a generally negative connotation.