Jim:

I posted a new subject but don't know if I highlighted it this way. It's about the National Press Club and PRSA. Here's part of it with four tildes at the end. (jack@odwyerpr.com)

Hi Jim:
Thanks for your help in posting crucial material on WP.

The National Press Club, the largest, most prestigious press club in the world which has about 750 PR ("communications") members in addition to thousands of journalists, on Oct. 19, 2011 issued a formal statement asking Public Relations Society of America to withdraw its ban against O'Dwyer Co. reporters at the 2011 national Assembly of the Society Oct. 15 in Florida. This ban had been stated in writing in a 23-page document of PRSA which NPC examined and rejected.

Whatever was in those 23 pages was not enough to bar O'Dwyer reporters from the Assembly (for the first time in 40 years), said the NPC statement which was signed by Mark Hamrick, president of NPC and a longtime reporter for the Associated Press. NPC does not want the lesson going out to the 31,000 regular and student members of PRSA and other PR people that the way to deal with critical press is to ban it from the group's meetings. The NPC did not agree with any of the charges against the O'Dwyer Co. or its employees that were in the 23 pages. It only noted that PRSA had made such charges.

To underscore its condemnation of the PRSA boycott, NPC sent its statement to 390 national and international media with offices in Washington, D.C. (That list is available if you wish it).

Below is the full text of the statement. If additional verification is needed, call executive director Bill McCarren at 202/662-7500 or e-mail him at wmccarren@press.org. At least one news medium published the statement.

Cordially,

Jack O'Dwyer (jack@odwyerpr.com)   
 
NPC STATEMENT: