tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post3235895036627588069..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: A Source of the Anechoic Effect Discovered: the Public Relations Person in the RoomRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-31862224875161262362010-07-12T16:19:20.841-04:002010-07-12T16:19:20.841-04:00Marion, thanks for your observations.
To me, thou...Marion, thanks for your observations.<br /><br />To me, though, it seems that when the boss is interviewed with the PR person present, the PR person may also serve to fix things if the boss inadvertently says something frank and honest that contradicts the "party line." Even if it is the boss' own "party line," this role still maintains the anechoic effect.Roy M. Poses MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-18064890373163060202010-07-07T19:08:13.962-04:002010-07-07T19:08:13.962-04:00Perhaps my experience isn't typical, but most ...Perhaps my experience isn't typical, but most of the times when I've had a PR person listening/sitting in, it's been for an interview with the boss, or with a high-level executive. They were not, by any means, in a position of power, but as advisers, and filling the blanks (or taking notes of questions the boss couldn't answer). <br /><br />That doesn't mean the environment Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01480942476554492853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-2290155893918658292010-07-05T15:05:09.089-04:002010-07-05T15:05:09.089-04:00As a medical investigative journalist, I've be...As a medical investigative journalist, I've been complaining about this problem for years. I was surprised when some fellow journalists indicated that a "chaperoned interview" (as we call them) would be any less open than an unchaperoned interview since "everyone, including their bosses, will see what they say anyway."<br /><br />What that ignores is that even when an Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08166959378304608319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-71496428701688243592010-07-02T13:06:13.858-04:002010-07-02T13:06:13.858-04:00Information control:spies or information officers?...Information control:spies or information officers? Will the interviewee lose one's job by saying the truth?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com