Summary: Pollute The Classroom

lawsuit on them quiets then down (Broverman, 2015). Firms that have the money and the power to do such a thing usually do put some form of lawsuit in against those who are defaming their name. They will do this regardless if those individuals are being honest and telling the truth about the company in question. The final tactic is to “Pollute the Classroom”. This is where the company in question provides material to classrooms across the United States with misleading information about what they truly do (Broverman, 2015). The entire point in doing this is to get the younger generation on board with the particular companies agenda so in the future the company will not under such scrutiny from outside sources. It is a rather ingenious plan and industries such as the tobacco industry used this tactic decades ago to try and lie about the harm that tobacco …show more content…
While it may not be right in the end it is easy to come to the understanding why they did such a thing. If repercussions were known to not be as severe and leniency would be given in any situation for telling the truth about something negative then many public relations employees and those who hire these public relations employees would be less likely to lie. Many of these individuals that get caught up in lying are put in an impossible and quick situation in which they have to make up their mind to lie and save themselves and their family or to tell the truth and potentially have their life and the lives of their family members turned upside down in an instant. One’s own selfishness for family is what also sparks the plethora of lying that occurs in the public relations ranks. Something can be done about this by ensure job security for these individuals by simply telling the truth. Ethics training also could help on keeping these individuals from lying about those who have hired them to do