TY - JOUR
AU - Olasky, Marvin N.
AB - Chapter 4 The Aborted Debate Within Public Relations: An Approach Through Kuhn's Paradigm Marvin N. Olasky The University of Texas Public Relations Quarterly suruq question addressed to public relations practitioners: "Tke word 'image' . . . does it leave you with a bad taste, or do you believe it is an accurate description of the end product of your efforts?" One answer: 'Creating images causes no problem for me. The image of PR people does. It stinks." -Public Relations Quarterly (1973, pp. 12, 24) Public relations counselor J. Carroll Bateman: 211 too frequently, we appear to suffer from the delusion that we can really play Sod with people. We would do much better to lay off this kind of nonsense . . ." -Bateman (1958, p. 17) Why have public relations practitioners generally been depicted as lowdlife liars? Why has a comment such as this been so common: "PR is dangerous. Publicists do not often lie, but telling half the truth is an integral part of their business, and stretching the truth is not uncommon" (Sandman, Rubin, & Sachsman, 1976, p. 367)? Or this: "Public relations works behind the scenes; occasionally the hand of the PR man can be 
TI - The Aborted Debate Within Public Relations: An Approach Through Kuhn's Paradigm
JF - Public Relations Research Annual
DO - 10.1207/s1532754xjprr0101-4_4
DA - 1989-01-01
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SP - 87
EP - 95
VL - 1
IS - 1-4
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