Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Harry Browne:

Sure, a revolving door. There was a time when it would have been considered once one moved into PR there was no going back. I think nowadays most people who go into PR probably do not want to go back because the money in journalism is so much poorer than it is in public relations. Speaking as a journalist who sometimes writes press releases for causes and organisations that I support, I am delighted, as I am sure any of the committee members would be, when journalists cut and paste my press release and put it straight into the paper with somebody else's name on it. That is great but it is not very good for journalism.