[pf] PR firms / letters to editor

by Hei2

21 December 2000 01:13 UTC

>Don't assume those were all "ordinary folks." It's a major tactic now of PR 
firms
that work for developers, and other issues as well, to hire people to submit
letters to the editor, call in on talk radio, etc., as if they were residents
with the "common person" point of view. <

During a public records request of our city's invoices from their PR firm, I 
discovered letters to the editor that had been written by the PR firm, 
specifically attacking me, by name, even though I was a city council member! 
They write these letters and then "shop-around" for someone to sign them.

Mary