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Journalists turned PR practitioners fail the industry
Stop hiring journalists as PR officers because most of them fail to perform.

Have you noticed that many journalists who leave the newsroom to become PR officers crawl back to the newsroom before sunrise? You know why? They are pushed by the love of money rather than the passion for PR. That's why. When the going gets tough, they run back to the newsroom. If you were thinking of hiring a journalist for PR job, please save yourself time and money wasting. The reality has proven that those who did PR as a course are far much better equipped to do the job than those who did journalism at collage. Journalists do not stay in PR but PR graduetes do. Where is Tim Modise, the Communications and Marketing Director of the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC),now? He is back to broadcasting at SAFM. He failed to perform. There are many others in government, municipalities and business who can't perform. The choice is yours.

Forum created by Simphiwe Ndwandwe

[26 Nov 2008 13:18]

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• Oh Please! - Herman Lategan
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        • Is that so?
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• Re: Well put!!
• No so - Swinger
• Attention to detail - Pedant
    • No insight - Iza
• Ooh, lose out on a lekker PR job to a hack, did you? - H.T.
    • Hack guy...
• hacking it just fine - Simonsky
    • Re: Simonsky - Ayeye
• So true... - :)
    • Re: So true
• This is nonsense - Feza
    • Re: Feza is nonsense
        • you are complete nonsese
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    • Feza Correct - PS
• Biased opinion, if I've ever seen one! - Monsta
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• Sour Grapes perhaps? - Urban Zulu
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        • Sour Grapes - Urban Zulu
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• Fundamental Difference - Bukkybil
• Check, check, double check - graduete :)
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• Merit in both arguments - PR Hack
• Simphiwe you wrote this crap?
    • Sour Grapes - Urban Zulu
    • Simphiwe is another Malema - Peter Pum
        • Re: Peter Pum - Simphiwe
            • Shame Simp, do you need a hug? - Peter Pum
• Bull! - Media mogul
• Simp - Peter plum
• spellcheck - River
• Go back to collage and learn how to spell - journo
    • Re:Journo - Simphiwe
• Curious Findings - Journo / PR
• Spelling, spelling!! - Journo
• Can't get a job so she attacks
    • Wrong! Wrong! - Simphiwe
        • It's not about gender
• PR falls under "Sales", reporting does not
• What exactly do you mean? - Kate
• Oh..oh..oh Poor Simphiwe - Wired
• Maybe you have a point - Jic
• disagree - look at rich mkhondo
• There is some truth in this - c
• Maybe maybe not... - Ninenine
• Let's take this online - Arthur C. Van Wyk


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