Thorny Issues handled by Church PR Department

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Roy wrote:

churchistrue wrote:

To criticize the church for communicating in the way it does now, utilizing a professional PR Spokesman, is either coming from a petty, unfair perspective or a perspective that is naive about how large organizations work.

Thanks for the input CIT. To be fair, the church is a large organization. I am glad that they have a PR department. I believe that Bro. Otterson does a pretty good job balancing the need to address these issues in some form with the need to not challenge the faith of the unaware.

I even hope that the PR guys can have a seat and influence at the decision making table (much as I suspect that the legal team has a “seat” or influence). As much as that might seem counterintuitive to a TBM, I want my church to consider how the general public will respond to policy decisions BEFORE those decisions are made. If the PR department is only there to provide spin once the policies have been set, then they become much less useful to me.

Good point. I’d be curious to know if there is a full loop, or if it just one way. I

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