The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year – “Post-truth”: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation. […]

Elitist mind games and the public sell out

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,247 Monday 02 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Many people who work in Public Relations (PR) are really just in the business of promoting companies, products, issues, basically advertising in a product/public friendly way, but the real dark arts are practised by spin doctors and propagandists whose […]