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Why shouldn't PR agents edit Wikipedia? edit
"Show me a PR person who is 'accurate' and 'truthful,' and I'll show you a PR person who is unemployed."
"The reason companies or governments hire oodles of PR people is because PR people are trained to be slickly untruthful or half-truthful. Misinformation and disinformation are the coin of the realm ..."[1]
CBS Legal analyst Andrew Cohen, May 7, 2009
- ^ Cohen, Andrew (2009-05-07). "The Flak Over Flacks". CBS News. Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
Vice-Chancellor dismisses Wikipedia; draws swift retort edit
| “ | I remember one moment when the vice-chancellor of a top university made a dismissive remark about Wikipedia, only to have a world-leading chemist in the audience icily retort that the pages on his particular arcane speciality were the most up-to-date summary currently available anywhere – because he wrote them. | ” |
| — John Naughton (The Guardian, Sun 2 Sep 2018) | ||