{"id":191350,"date":"2009-08-31T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/31\/unethical-even-by-the-standards-of-the-public-relations-industry\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:10:00","slug":"unethical-even-by-the-standards-of-the-public-relations-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/31\/unethical-even-by-the-standards-of-the-public-relations-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Unethical Even by the Standards of the Public Relations Industry*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the discovery that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/28\/business\/media\/28penn.html?_r=1\">Mark Penn\u2019s use of his <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span> column to pimp for clients and to trawl for new clients<\/a> is not an issue for their editorial page.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising, given that the WSJ has the most venal and dishonest editorial OP\/ED section in the United States, though Fred Hiatt and the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> offer some competition in that area.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I cannot believe that I just said that.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">That may be the first time that I&#8217;ve ever said this about a Democrat.<\/span><sup>\u2021<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">But it is Mark &#8220;The Human Stain&#8221; Penn, so it is not a surprise that he would have earned this distinction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the discovery that Mark Penn\u2019s use of his Wall Street Journal column to pimp for clients and to trawl for new clients is not an issue for their editorial page. Not surprising, given that the WSJ has the most venal and dishonest editorial OP\/ED section in the United States, though Fred &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,974,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}