{"id":216,"date":"2005-12-13T03:27:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2005-12-13T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T11:28:14","slug":"i-am-not-alone-more-about-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Alone &#8212; More About Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has written to me on this subject, but there is evidence out there on the Internet that I am not alone in bemoaning the erosion, if not outright loss, of truth in our public discourse. <em>Bulldog Reporter<\/em>, self-described as &#8220;The Leading Source of PR Views, News and Tools,&#8221; has a section called <em>Daily &#8216;Dog<\/em>, in which, on December 9th, there appeared a piece titled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulldogreporter.com\/dailydog\/issues\/1_1\/dailydog_barks_bites\/2659-1.html\"target=\"_blank\">Is Truth the New Pink? How PR Can Bring Integrity Back into Fashion<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s the sub-head followed by the first two paragraphs of the piece written by Aaron D. Cushman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Veteran publicist says the media\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s waning credibility poses new challenges to PR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to reach the public while also presenting an opportunity to help raise standards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Truth is no longer fashionable. Our great country that has enjoyed its lofty position of righteousness is in the throes of losing the international public relations battle. Our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation is suffering\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthanks to unilaterally abandoning international treaties, militarily becoming an invader and occupier, and more recently, having its government leadership (like Senator Tom DeLay, Mr. Cheney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief of staff and a certain California congressman) pleading guilty to accepting bribes and kick-backs and allegedly lying to grand juries.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become an infectious disease that has, in the past decade, infiltrated the media. Once pillars of the publication industry, media outlets such as CBS, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Cincinnati Inquirer are but a few who have acknowledged staff errors and misdeeds. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has written to me on this subject, but there is evidence out there on the Internet that I am not alone in bemoaning the erosion, if not outright loss, of truth in our public discourse. Bulldog Reporter, self-described as &#8220;The Leading Source of PR Views, News and Tools,&#8221; has a section called Daily &#8216;Dog, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Am Not Alone &#8212; More About Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}