“No comment” allows others to shape public perception
The public increasingly distrusts sources who decline to comment on news stories when asked; this allows someone else to frame the coverage More organizations are responding to questions from reporters they don’t like with a phrase such as “no comment.”...Read More
Are Communications Professionals Concerned about Media Bias? Survey says…
Most comms pros have some concern about bias across eight different media sources; at one end, 54% expressed strong concerns about social media, while at the other, 28% expressed strong concerns about professional journalists Are there still two sides to...Read More
Comms Pros on Whether or Not their Organization Trusts the Media
“Depends on the media outlet.” wrote one respondent. “Some [media outlets] are fair; some are not.” More communications pros say their organization trusts the media than do not. Even so, the percentage is a little under half. The rest is...Read More
Quantum Entanglement? A PR View of Media Bias [Survey Data]
Twenty-some years ago, I was a communications student in a college class on media criticism. One of the debates in that classroom centered on whether or not the media was bias in its reporting. As I recall, while those debates...Read More
Partisan Politics Complicates PR and Comms for Business, Survey Finds
72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. Some 72% of professionals believe...Read More
