Journo's PBS Op-Ed Laments 'the Growing Power of Publicists'

Disclaimer: If you’ve already read too many “journalists vs. PR” stories this week, then you might want to skip this one. Our bad.

PBS Mediashift contributor/John Jay College associate professor of English Devin Harner offered a reassessment of last month’s biggest PR story this week, and his comments on the Putin/Ketchum debate are worth reading in a “taking your vitamins” way. He sees our era as one in which the publicist has a growing power to shape the media narrative, and he’s not too happy about it.

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