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Advertising is PR, not lobbying. Lobbying often involves implicit or explicit offers of campaign funding, PAC support/opposition, and gifts that skirt the edge
by shkkmo 3y ago
Advertising is PR, not lobbying.
Lobbying often involves implicit or explicit offers of campaign funding, PAC support/opposition, and gifts that skirt the edge of what is legally bribery.
- ghiculescu 3y agolol we certainly have lobbying in Australia, they just apparently keep a lower profile than American lobbyists do.
- kortilla 3y agoNo, lobbying is “attempting to influence the government”. Advertising about proposed bills is 100% lobbying. Without any funding to the politician involved, a lobbyist’s job is to convince the politician of voting a particular way. A sleazy lobbyist may try money in indirect ways for/against the politician, but a regular one will try to raise awareness through advertising and public pressure. It’s all lobbying.
- shkkmo 3y agoLobbyists may engage in PR activity, but that does not make PR activity lobbying. Lobbying has a pretty clear definition which you are trying to stretch here. Let me put it this way: Airing an ad about a government rep or piece of legislation is PR or advertising. Using the threat or promise of airing that ad to try to talk a politician into doing something is lobbying.