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In December 2021, PRSA only had 15,652 regular members, not "more than 30,000 members" as falsely promoted on PRSA's social media. Fraud?
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While gaslighting the PR industry with undeserved accolades to PRSA's over-compensated exec staff, PRSA conceals its actual CEO job-performance data.
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The PR industry's long-running pricing problem is arguably connected at the hip to its workforce crisis in mental health.
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Syracuse's Newhouse School sent PR students for career advice from 5W's ethics-embattled Ronn Torossian. Months later, Syracuse arrested him.
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PRSA's College of Fellows is in trouble, with one-third of its members M.I.A. But given years of such bad history, who can blame defectors?
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With massive bylaw / compliance conflicts, PRSA’s unenforced Code of Ethics hasn’t been updated since Bill Clinton was POTUS.
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The Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE) reports ethical competency shortfalls of PR graduates / new professionals. But are PR ethics codes partially to blame?
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Trust cannot exist without evidence-based ethics. The 2024 European Business Ethics Forum illuminated this fact well in the City of Light.
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To advance ethics in strategic communication, it's critical to reach boardroom and c-suite leaderships well outside the PR industry.
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For more than a decade, PRSA claimed to have a legitimate "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the U.S. Dept. of Defense. They were lying.