JMC 28001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Press Secretary, Government Executive, Social Forces

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Journalism and Mass Communication
• Course: JMC 28001
• Professor: Stephanie Smith

Document Summary

The reach of government: civil rights, gun control, gas prices, movie ratings, education loans, health care, minimum wage, immigration, passports, and visas, reproductive and abortion rights. Branches of government: executive, president, vice president, executive office of the president (white house communications office, press. Secretary: legislative branch, house of representatives (435 members, senate (100 members, judicial branch, supreme court. And yet : the practice of public relations has been prohibited by congress since 1913, alternative titles, public affairs specialist, public information officer, press secretary, press attache, media relations, media spokesperson, community relations officer. What is public affairs: public relationships, public opinion, public policy. Interpret how legislation will impact their clients: boeing sells its aircraft to the government: air force one, b-52 bomber, Lobbying: more 12,000 registered lobbyists, former lawyers and former elected officials who understand how government works, poor public image (scandals: unethical or illegal political influence, bribed, payoffs)