Do former journalists make the worst PR pros?

A PR pro from New Zealand reportedly paid for Japanese spy planes to keep an eye on anti-whaling protesters. Yikes . Turns out this public relations man, Glenn Inwood, is a former journalist and that made PR pro, Gerry McCusker, consider the people who populate the profession. “Another ex-journalist-turned-PR is at the center of a whale fishing/spy scandal PR disaster in Australia, proving that a decent hack doth not a good flack make!” He wrote on his blog, PR Disasters . “In my h…

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