Can too much good PR ever be a bad thing?
We’re all thinking probably not… there can never be too much good PR. But I encountered, perhaps, a tidbit of good PR that almost defeats the company’s purpose. Let me explain:
I had fallen in love with The Learning Channel’s “Life Lessons” because I thought they really reflected a great purpose of PR: to truly think on behalf of publics for the better good of society in general.
The lessons were a way of advertising some of TLC’s new shows like “Honey, We’re Killing the Kids” about the ways children are eating poorly these days, or for “Shalom in the Home” which touches on family issues. The good PR was sincere and started from the network’s content. I just really thought they were valuable messages.
They had been doing some good PR, I thought, by showing some of the network’s leading personalities giving their thoughts and opinions on some of life’s important questions. In one such segment, they showed Clinton Kelly from the show “What Not To Wear” saying “that we should all think for ourselves for a change because there are too many times that other people tell us what and how to think…”
But doesn’t he appear on a show where he and Stacy London help people learn the “right way” to think about clothes?