In America Starts Here, and it s one of the sleaziest promotions in the sleazy world of local television. Channel 2 is ready to salute any company with the dough, no matter what their history of environmental lawbreaking, deception, discrimination, and harm to the public. Naturally, any company which buys the time is also assured of buying silence from the newsroom. Imagine if we had a television station in Chicago that devoted that much time and money to examining corporations, instead of servicing their PR needs. Call Channel 2 at and tell them to start doing more investigating, and less saluting.
Perceptions are real.
In this age of accelerating change and borderless, instantaneous communication, the proactive management of perceptions has never been more important, the PR giant s Mission statement affirms. Burson-Marsteller is in the Perception Management business. Our goal is to ensure that the perceptions which surround our clients and influence their stakeholders are consistent with reality and our clients desired business objectives. We believe this focus assures our efforts will create measurable results regardless of the discipline applied. Tosinvest and Asset, two Italian corporations with heavy media interests, agreed to buy stakes in l Unita a daily with the proud history of having been founded with the help of Antonio Gramsci in 1924 to wage the Left s fight against Mussolini s Fascists.