Comments on: PR/Media Week-in-Review, 07/27/08 http://www.prblognews.com/2008/07/27/week-in-review-3/ Communication in the Digital Age Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Liam FitzPatrick http://www.prblognews.com/2008/07/27/week-in-review-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2216 Liam FitzPatrick Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:54:49 +0000 http://www.prblognews.com/?p=345#comment-2216 Intrigued by your comment that the CIPR is crap at PR based on a story in an obscure local newspaper that clearly has a sub-editor with a twisted sense of irony.... There's a lot to complain about professional associations and it does seem to be a favourite occupation for most professionals - no matter what the profession. But I do think we get the professional associations we deserve - why snipe at a body that's trying to raise standards, with little funding and no control over the profession? Isn't it better to applaud attempts to improve the education of practitioners (big tick for the CIPR there), gain recognition for professionals (another tick for a body that worked pretty hard to gain the same status as other professionals such as lawyers, accountants and medics) and provide a forum for professionals around the world to debate the contribution they make to development and peace. Maybe the CIPR is crap at PR in a remote corner of England where a big cabbage normally counts as frontpage news. But it does sound a bit odd hearing a kneejerk prejudice from someone who has just spent ages debating what are the acceptable boundaries of racism... Liam Intrigued by your comment that the CIPR is crap at PR based on a story in an obscure local newspaper that clearly has a sub-editor with a twisted sense of irony….

There’s a lot to complain about professional associations and it does seem to be a favourite occupation for most professionals - no matter what the profession. But I do think we get the professional associations we deserve - why snipe at a body that’s trying to raise standards, with little funding and no control over the profession?

Isn’t it better to applaud attempts to improve the education of practitioners (big tick for the CIPR there), gain recognition for professionals (another tick for a body that worked pretty hard to gain the same status as other professionals such as lawyers, accountants and medics) and provide a forum for professionals around the world to debate the contribution they make to development and peace.

Maybe the CIPR is crap at PR in a remote corner of England where a big cabbage normally counts as frontpage news. But it does sound a bit odd hearing a kneejerk prejudice from someone who has just spent ages debating what are the acceptable boundaries of racism…

Liam

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