Nicole’s PRspective

What is going on the PR profession when Gov. Blagojevich’s spokesperson comes out and says “It’s business as usual”

Business as usual, does the usual in Illinois include being arrested by the FBI and having everyone from the President-elect to my mom calling for you resignation. If this is usual I don’t want to see a bad day.

But more than that by willingly telling the press that everything is fine, we’re going to leave our heads buried in the sand – Ms. Quinn is damaging the profession. Right now she is a high-profile PR person, by ignoring her ethical duties to acknowledge the situation and answer to it, she is damaging her credibility. Much in the way Scott McClellan damaged his credibility with President Bush. When high-profile people in any profession damage themselves they damage the profession. This is especially true in a profession like public relations that already has questions surrounding it.

Should you have to sacrifice your job to keep your ethics? [if everything about him is true he would have fired her] Are your moral standards more important? I know mine are, but then again he would have come back to work on Wednesday to find my resignation on his desk. But if she had done that we would be talking about someone else right now. Maybe it’s time to reexamine the PRSA Code of Ethics and figure out where that line really is (or isn’t).

But who knows maybe she can write a best-selling tell all that really tells very little. (Though I did like McClellan’s book)