Edelman Apologizes for Robin Williams Post
After receiving a slew of negative coverage yesterday, Edelman has apologized for its post on using Robin Williams’ death as a way to more aggressively promote clients in the mental health field.
We apologize to anyone we offended with our post. We did not intend to capitalize on the passing of a great actor who contributed so much.
— Edelman PR (@EdelmanPR) August 14, 2014
While our post yesterday cited Business Insider’s Hunter Walker, his coverage of the original story was relatively tame compared to that of pubs like RepMan, in which Peppercomm’s Lauren Parker calls it “so off-base, [it’s] not even in Yankee Stadium.”
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