Yesterday, Adam Sternbergh wrote a piece for the New York Times on how PR people are portrayed on the big screen. The article is an interesting read and follows the release of “Phone Booth” and Al Pacino’s new film, “People I know”.
Publicists, the “power girls” notwithstanding, have never been fans of scrutiny. They prefer to work just outside the spotlight. This is because they’ve always understood what the rest of us temporarily forgot: that their business is inherently unglamorous and, yes, occasionally ugly. It just looked pretty for a moment.
Some supplementary thoughts are online here.