Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense could be seen as a very early example of public relations.
2. The Keurig 2.0 case study of consumers complaining about being forced to use nothing but official company coffee pods in the coffee maker demonstrates that if a company ignores complaints on social media, they will eventually go away. Responding to the critics would have just prolonged the problem.
3. Telephone companies and electric utilities were among the last businesses to start actively using public relations.
4. Before the 1920s press agents mostly just worked at getting publicity for their clients as opposed to creating an image.
5. Ivy Lee made “spin control” a popular term as early as 1910.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
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