PR pro: Don’t call us marketers
An op-ed from The Huffington Post draws clear lines between the marketing and PR fields, but the reality is those distinctions are getting blurrier.
List Brian Kilgore among the easily offended. He recently penned a piece for The Huffington Post titled, “Don’t Insult PR People by Calling Them Marketers.”
The offending part is the Globe and Mail, which called CBC’s new boss a former “marketing and public relations executive.”
Marketing and public relations are different, Kilgore asserts.
The piece is actually more of a 101-level “This is what PR is and this is what marketing is—see, aren’t they different?”
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