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?
If a public relations (PR) ethics code hasn’t been meaningfully updated since before the dawn of social media and is widely locked in a myopic, media-relations-centric time-warp, then it’s missing massive chunks of essential treatment of contemporary issues.
Destroying data at a management team's command can have massive ethics and legal consequences for the unwitting PR practitioner.