1. What do you think of when you hear the term public relations? What images come to mind? Where did these impressions come from?
Sports have played a major role in my life and when I think of public relations I think of professional athletes, specifically NFL players. All I really watch is ESPN and NFL Network, and those are just sports all day and night. I do not follow gossip on celebreties but if an NFL or other professional athlete gets in trouble I hear it almost immediately. When I think of public relations I think of how the public views these professional athletes. Although I generally think of it in a negative way because it is not important on how the public views athletes until they have a bad opinion of him/her. No one tries to fix a good reputation and there is certainly no news coverage on somebody who everyone thinks is a nice guy.
4. Can and should the often hostile relationship between the journalism and PR professions be mended? Why or Why Not?
The hostile relationship between those two professions should absolutely be mended. Although I do not believe it could happen as long as journalist stay the way they are. Journalist try to make someone look bad because it will get that person in the news and the journalist will make money and PR people try to mend that bad news. As long as journalist are willing to go to the stretches that they do then there will be no success in mending the hostility. Although it is also slightly on the public's fault. If people did not eat up and enjoy hearing about successful people's downfall than there would be no reason for the journalists to cover it so intensely.
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