Defining Public Relations

In an ever changing world that is fast paced and sometimes almost impossible to keep up with, one could only imagine definitions of words or how people interpret them change. Depending on where you are from, how you were raised, how you interpret things and just your environment in general, sometimes words have different meanings to different people. Public relations are an example that is ever changing and is able to be defined in more than one way. Within this paper one can learn of different definitions as well as being able to compare and contrast those definitions.

Definition 1

From an online search looking for a definition of public relations, Wikipedia said the following, "Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build, manage and sustain a positive image. In other (non-PR) words, "public relations" is a PR euphemism for some kinds of (what used to be called) propaganda. The term "public relations" is itself a piece of propaganda about such kinds of propaganda." The explanation of public relations also went on to say that it "is the art and science of managing communication between an organization and its key public constituents to build, manage, and sustain its positive image."

Definition 2

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