I’m pretty biased, but I’ve always considered advertising, in the more traditional sense of the discipline, to be more honest than public relations. Advertising tends to present itself more nakedly — you know an ad when you see one because it has an identified sponsor. Public relations works in many not-so-obvious ways. It can be a manufactured piece of puffery disguised as “news,” or a backroom legislative lobbying …
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