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Overcoming The Dark Side: Seeing Through The Spin Of Public Relations In The News, Samantha Stanley
Overcoming The Dark Side: Seeing Through The Spin Of Public Relations In The News, Samantha Stanley
First Global News Literacy Conference
In its current state, news literacy curriculum covers all the information types that consumers will see when they read, watch, listen to, and interact with news content. While current lessons do explain how press releases distribute information in the “promotion / publicity” neighborhood, there is much more nuance to the practice of PR that impacts information people read as ‘news’. In today’s climate of political spin cycles, it is more important than ever for news consumers to understand what public relations is and how its strategies influence news content. Because the practice of public relations is so often misunderstood and …