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3. Учебный курс

1. Урок 1 (Unit 1) What is Public Relations?

Notes

The word combination Public Relations (Abbr. PR) is used mostly in singular but sometimes in plural. With a singular verb it denotes the art or science of establishing and promoting a favorable relationship. With a plural verb it denotes the methods and activities employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public. With a singular or plural verb it denotes the degree of success obtained in achieving a favorable relationship with the public.

(“Public Relations.” Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 4th ed. London: 2005.)

1.Starting up

1.Do you know, what public relations is and what it is not?

2.What is spin?

3.Is public relations a growing field around the world? Why?

2.Listening

Listening 1.1.

Notes

In public relations, spin is a sometimes pejorative term signifying a heavily biased portrayal in one’s own favor of an event or situation. While traditional public relations may also rely on creative presentation of the facts, “spin” often, though not always, implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics.

The term is borrowed from ball sports such as cricket, where a spin bowler may impart spin on the ball during a delivery so that it will curve through the air or bounce in an advantageous manner.

The techniques of “spin” include: selectively presenting facts and quotes that support one’s position (cherry picking); non-denial denial; phrasing in a way that assumes unproven truths; euphemisms to disguise or promote one’s agenda; ambiguity; skirting; rejecting the validity of hypotheticals; appealing to internal policies. Another spin technique involves careful choice of timing in the release of certain news so it can take advantage of prominent events in the news.

Skilled practitioners of spin are sometimes called spin doctors, though probably not to their faces unless it is said facetiously. It is the PR equivalent of calling a writer a hack.

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