Submitted by Bob Burton on
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the peak PR industry body in the United Kingdom, is talking up recent changes to its self-regulatory code of conduct. The CIPR has amended its regulations to enable an ethics investigation to be commenced without having to wait for a complaint from a member. PR Week reports that CIPR President Tony Bradley claimed the changes meant that "the watchdog has finally got some teeth." In March 2000 the CIPR revised its code to move away from what it describes as the earlier "'thou shall not...'approach." Even if CIPR takes action, the public is unlikely to ever hear about it. "All complaints remain confidential. Announcement of a complaint outcome is at the discretion of the Professional Practices Committee," CIPR states. CIPR doesn't even disclose in its annual report how many ethics cases were heard in the previous year.
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Ethics?
So what are they, some kind of high priesthood?
I am not familiar with the CIPR, but the whole "industry" of public relations is built on cranking up lies to fool the public, and what this has to do with ethics is beyond me.
P.R. agencies have to talk ethics and draw the line somewhere AS PART OF THEIR P.R. PROGRAM ITSELF. Every confidence man (con man) knows this. Yeah they've got reason to be ethical: their own gain. They LOVE that blind trust stuff. Especially when it gets all cozy paternalistic and all.
If society has no blind trust in others being ethical, then the whole existence of p.r. is exposed for what it is --- a house of cards.
As for the United States, it has become a covert and reconcocted plantation of a sort (or set of them), or way too similar anyway -- with p.r. as the slave owner, fate-meisters, going around working their will upon the people, who since they are doing real jobs (instead of cranking up lies to further lucrative agendas) do not have time to stop and address the travesties.
This plantation analogy is not too far from the truth. It permeates way too much of all life. We've got way too many things like commissioners who act like they are some kind of high priesthoods, and then it ends up that they themselves are being paid off to further some agenda. This is nothing but a thinly guised plantation society going on in America any more, with the "slave owners" as fate meisters --- almost as if they are God himself. They are so delighted when they match their powers with those of God Himself.
Do we ever stop to ask ourselves why it is that someone like a state commissioner ends up in prison to begin with? Or that perhaps it is some kind of TREND to put the likes of a criminal into such lofty positions?
Now granted, this is not to mention the number of times non-criminals end up taking the blame for true criminals --- which is another (similar) story in itself of which volumes could be written --- if all truth be told.
I am quite sure that if there ever is any Judgement Day, or Day of Reckoning --- like in the afterlife, that we are going to hear beaucou (sp? --- anyway lots of) interesting stories of what REALLY happened, as opposed to what was said to have happened by entities posing as Big Brother, out to fool the public for gain and for sport and ego-poofing. Obviously there is little belief in either an afterlife (or Judgement Day) or any significance otherwise of not violating spiritual principles.
What gets me is how these people can lie about other people --- all the while hinting at being "Christian" or otherwise above reproach. And of course, what the Bible really says (as one of the Ten Commandments) is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." (handy convenient trans: Don't lie about others.)
Hell they wouldn't have a "business" if they could not depend upon lying about other people. Lying IS their business. That's what they get paid to do. Then they hint like oh they are in league with God Himself, and get all paternalistic like they have superior knowledge, and it is so very slave-holder like. As is convenient, the inference shifts to being a parent over a child --- this world is so pathetic and ridiculous.
This is not to mention the lack of balance of powers in a singlely-owned media state. Then that must REALLY be God himself, at the megaphone, dictating matters.
This travesty often seems tolerable from a distance, when it does not involve us personally. But I wouldn't put up with one scrap of it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no end to the degree of assinity (or state of assinine) in the downward spiral of think not/know not.
In this website there is a lot of mention about the war in Iraq, perhaps because that is so obvious to so many people. And that is well and okay and very necessary. But the war in Iraq is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the general trend itself of all of this Tom Foolery of the public. It's everywhere. It's only because now it's gone to starting wars that we have to recognize this monster of a trend that we've tolerated and/or created.