By Rick Manning
Get ready America, many of the world’s largest public relations firms
are creating a climate change litmus test by asserting that they will
not work for companies or organizations that don’t buy the global
warming mantra that is being used to destroy the free market system.
What these PR geniuses apparently fail to realize is that by taking
this action, any company or group that they currently represent has to
be assumed to hold the same global warming position that they so
lovingly cling to, making them prime economic boycott targets by those
who oppose the climate change agenda.
One wonders if they have already gone to their clients in the energy
field and informed them that they will no longer represent them unless
they sign a note certifying that they corporately bow to the PR firm’s
political beliefs?
This
decision opens the door for a new group of public relations firms who
aren’t hamstrung by global warming dogma, and the corporate behemoths
that currently dominate the landscape will either collapse of their own
self-important weight or quietly change their policy
Will they drop representing a company’s interests on real estate
matters, because the company supports free market groups that oppose
the global warming mantra?
Will they refuse to represent investment groups that have holdings of
energy companies that are fighting against the global warming agenda?
Will they force all their employees to sign an oath of fealty to the
global climate change gods?
To enforce their edict they would have to do all of these things, but
none of them matter. The market system allows people and
companies to
make choices about whom they hire to provide public relations advice,
and it would be counter to a company’s interest to hire a public
relations firm that opposes their core, underlying business. If
corporate decision makers act rationally, they will seek out public
relations firms that message to as broad of a group of people as
possible rather than limiting themselves to those who mindlessly bleat
to the same hype.
Read more at
NetRightDaily.com:
Not every PR firm has joined this group of morons. A firm I once worked for, Edelman (the late, great Tony Blankley also worked for them) has this to say:
ReplyDeleteThe US-based Edelman, which is the world’s largest independently owned PR firm, did not explicitly rule out taking on climate deniers as clients.
“Expanding the dialogue in a constructive manner, and driving productive outcomes to solve energy challenges are the key criteria for evaluating client engagements,” said spokesman Michael Bush.
He said Edelman takes on clients on a case-by-case basis.
Sounds like they are not getting on board this ship of fools.
What makes them think the climate denier firms can't find replacement firms and probably get better results for less money? If they have too they'll go in house or pool money and assets to form up a really big PR firm.
ReplyDelete"Their is money to be made here."
This is already full bloom in the construction industry, or whats left of it, in the form of LEEDS points. -Anymouse
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