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[Carl Remick]

> Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >Sure enough.  But the first thing you learn in public relations
> >writing is to junk acceptable English and turn it into the
> >incantatory nonsense of bizspeak.
>
> Why don't you give us a helpful little PR glossary, Carl? I love
> turns of phrase like "educate" (= fill people's heads with lies) and
> "work with" (= seduce journalists into being frictionless conduits
> for lies).
>
> Doug
>

Too 1984-ish, Doug.  My own humble niche in propagandizing mainly involves
crafting messages for the financial community, and getting those guys to
accept your story is truly pushing on an open door.  You'll note I used the
word "incantatory" to describe business communications, and ritualistic this
stuff is.  So long as you season your lead with whatever rhetorical claptrap
is most fashionable at that particular time -- "B2B," "Internet incubator,"
"application service provider," "critical mass," "pure play," etc. -- the
folks on Wall Street can't get enough of it.  The only real effort is to
keep current on the lingo.

Carl