I am currently working in Singapore under Q1 Employment Pass and I would like to apply PR in Singapore. However, I have only been working for 7 months, should I wait for at least 1 year? Or I can apply for it now? Is there a quota for different countries for PR approval given by the Singapore government?
Hi!
The Bachelor of Communications Degree I want to do has 4 majors to choose from: Event management
International Communication
Public Relations
Media Studies.
I would like to write or edit newspapers, something in the journalism sector, but im not sure which of the majors listed would allow me to get a job in the journalism area. Please give me some advice on what to major in.
Thankyou!
What major do you think I should do in Communications then, if print journalism is dying?.
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” —President GW. Bush,N.Y., May 24, 2005
Unnamed editorial appeared in at least four different newspapers across U.S. Nothing unique about that huh? Well, the first parapgraph in every one of them is exactly the same:
“One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend Davis-Bacon Act rules in the hardest hit states. But Congress is frantically trying to overrule the president, which would add billions of dollars to the already staggering recovery costs.”
Federal auditors said on Friday the Bush administration violated law by buying favorable news coverage of Bush’s education policies; making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams; and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
I’m really into journalism and mass media, but the part I love the most is advertisement and how different agencies can get people to think one thing or the other with a single image. I like being in control of how people view things.
But the thing is, I have no idea which schools turn out graduates that actually get into an agency or end up working in PR. If anyone knew a good school for that, or just a good school in general, I would like to hear your opinion. Thanks!
Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests:
– Freedom Works staffers coordinate conference calls among protesters, contacting conservative activists to give them “sign ideas, sample press releases, and a map of events around the country.”
– Freedom Works staffers apparently moved to “take over” the planning of local events in Florida.
– Freedom Works provides how-to guides for delivering a “clear message” to the public and media.
– Freedom Works has several domain addresses — some of them made to look like they were set up by amateurs — to promote the protests.
– Americans for Prosperity is writing press releases and planning the events in New Jersey, Arizona, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, and several other states.
This type of corporate ‘astroturfing‘ is nothing new to either organization. While working to promote Social Security privatization, Freedom Works was caught planting one of its operatives as a “single mom” to ask questions to President Bush in a town hall on the subject. Last year, the Wall Street Journal exposed Freedom Works for similarly building “amateur-looking” websites to promote the lobbying interests of **** Armey, the former Republican Majority Leader who now leads Freedom Works and is a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper.
Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots‘ events around the country.
This afternoon, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, leader of the corporate-funded American Solutions for Winning the Futures (ASWF), blasted an e-mail to his supporters with a reminder to attend the protests, along with a “Toolkit” of talking points. Gingrich’s ASWF is funded by polluters and helped orchestrate the “Drill Here, Drill Now” campaign last summer. ASWF has been an official “partner” in the tea party effort since at least March.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/lobbyists-planning-teaparties/
At least the protests on the left don’t need to be heavily promoted on tv, lol. People just show up because their angry.
By the way….where the heck were these Tea protests when President Bush was doubling our national debt???