JCOM 2300 PR Does it win hearts and minds even in the face of a great recession?

PR fuel recently wrote an article stating that PR Doesn't win wars, but it also highlights the use of silence. There was a comment about how much of the time Silence speaks louder than outcries from PR Reps. This was a very interesting view. I can see where it is true, but I can also see where it can be false. The journalist said it can be good becaue it means the gov. is working in the problem, which much of the time we hope is the case. Yet, given the recent situation and how the american public didn't make a move to pay attention to the little whispers of problems, those little whispers have turned into screams of pain from the American piggy bank. Many people blaming Bush which as discussed earlier has made some less than sensible choices, with his second term of power. But the main money crisis was given to us by none other than our favorite president, Clinton. Regardless, whether silence has helped or hurt our economy for now I do hope that PR can help to uplift the hearts and minds of the American people. After all that is the job of a PR person isn't it? To uplift the hearts of man to buying into the right idea? We are givers of thought, not sellers of goods!

The Market is a huge PR Move all the time

I don't think people are as aware of the power of the media as they should be. The P.R. people and spokesperson for all these companies could be using all the flowery words they can think of but the very next day they can either declare bankruptcy or do a complete turn about. A lot of it is based on their word choice alone. If there is one slip of the tongue it could mean your companies either bleak opening day in the market or the turn around you have been hoping for. With the Current AIG and Lehman problems, I think a lot of underhanded things are happening behind the scenes to keep the American people at bay while the company executives bail out with a fat check. Just recently Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. told the public that he didn't want the government to endanger tax payers money to bail out the company, then just days later he brokered a deal to give an $85 billion dollar loan to AIG. This loan of course funded by the American Taxpayers money. Decisions are being made in haste to try and just fix what has gone so wrong. All these hasty decisions are going to get the country more screwed uo then we already are. Lets think about it guys!