The Three Main Elements Of Public Relations

In Theory, Everybody Buys The Best And Cheapest Commodities Offered To Him On The Market. In Practice, If Every One Went Around Pricing, And Chemically Testing Before Purchasing, The Dozens Of Soaps Or Fabrics Or Brands Of Bread Which Are For Sale, Economic Life Would Become Hopelessly Jammed.

For The Same Reason I Read The National Geographic, I Like To See Places I Will Never Visit.

Once He Could Read And Write He Would Have A Mind Fit To Rule. So Ran The Democratic Doctrine. But Instead Of A Mind, Universal Literacy Has Given Him Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps Inked With Advertising Slogans, With Editorials, With Published Scientific Data, With The Trivialities Of The Tabloids And The Platitudes Of History, But Quite Innocent Of Original Thought.

We Have Voluntarily Agreed To Let An Invisible Government Sift The Data And High-spot The Outstanding Issues So That Our Field Of Choice Shall Be Narrowed To Practical Proportions. From Our Leaders And The Media They Use To Reach The Public, We Accept The Evidence And The Demarcation Of Issues Bearing Upon Public Questions; From Some Ethical Teacher, Be It A Minister, A Favorite Essayist, Or Merely Prevailing Opinion, We Accept A Standardized Code Of Social Conduct To Which We Conform Most Of The Time.

In The Ethical Sense, Propaganda Bears The Same Relation To Education As To Business Or Politics. It May Be Abused. It May Be Used To Over-advertise An Institution And To Create In The Public Mind Artificial Values. There Can Be No Absolute Guarantee Against Its Misuse.