Mr. Harry Browne:

I am sure that is the case but it would be beyond my specific experience to discuss that. The PR people I dealt with were great and it would be a real slur against public relations to suggest that somehow it is the opposite of journalism, the evil empire or the dark side. I know that on a Thursday afternoon, when I could really do with a photograph for page three of my supplement, there were a couple of PR companies that would be pretty good at giving me a call and saying there was a nice story and a picture that could probably be used. For the most part, PR people do their job well when they understand how journalists need to do their job. There may be insidious behaviour, with information being fed on behalf of a corporate client, but in some respects it was not a destructive force that prevented me from doing stories that flak has potential to do.