Edelman vs. Gawker: PR Bloggers Silent, For Now

Former PR Week media editor turned Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan recently cited an anonymous source that accused PR firm Edelman of telling media training clients, “Sometimes you just have to stand up there and lie.”

Edelman CEO Richard Edelman sent a response to Nolan, which was posted on Gawker and stated, in part:

Your post on Edelman today about an unnamed ad and marketing person alleging that we instruct our clients to lie as part of our media training is completely false and needs to be taken down.

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