flacks

It's annoying that corporate flacks have stolen so many useful words and rendered them meaningless through over-use.

So that's one use case - talking directly to people who otherwise would be protected by a circle of PR flacks.

Sending admin flacks out to say that Benghazi was caused by a YouTube video?

Mostly because movie studios have more lobbyists and PR flacks than still photographers.

Thankfully, in computational biology articles PR flacks and wiki-lawyers are at a minimum.

That filters down into their secular priesthoods of academics and PR flacks.

These people don't care if you say you don't like Memphis, but they do care if their flacks do; Memphis is part of their identity.

I wonder how much of this was foreseen, or even instigated by the PR flacks.

I'll bet a team of HP marketing flacks worked for weeks on this thing'.

Stories that are just pitched by flacks, and written up.

(It also sounds likely that content written by a given corporation's PR flacks have bad conversion rates.

So the mass casualties there don't get politicians, lobbyists and PR flacks whipping the media into a frenzy over it, instead it just gets swept under the rug.

It's not unusual for PR flacks to wax lyrical about "partnerships" with their customers, but this report has an especial air of sincerity about it.

But that usually comes across as "Heritage supports Y" and "X donates to Heritage," not a single fact that "X supports Y." And since Heritage flacks for hundreds of Ys, X has plausible deniability.

I think the real draw for following celebs on twitter is not that it isn't broadcast, but the idea that it's a more "unfiltered" broadcast; that it's more likely you're getting an off-the-cuff remark straight from the actual celebrity instead of a scripted press clipping from their PR flacks.