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The “What” and “Why” of Public Relations for Archaeology: A Postscript to Decicco’s Public Relations Primer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Parker B. Potter Jr.
Parker B. Potter Jr.*
Affiliation:
New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Concord, NH 03302-2043
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Abstract

Gabriel DeCicco's public relations primer, commissioned by the Public Relations Committee of the Society for American Archaeology and published in American Antiquity, is a useful and comprehensive discussion with a serious limitation. DeCicco's (1988) article is a very good technical guide to generating newspaper-based public relations, but it contains only scant consideration of the fundamental questions of what to say, and why to use public relations. In this postscript to DeCicco's primer, I discuss the importance of recognizing these two questions and articulating responses to them.

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El texto elemental para relaciones públicas de Gabriel DeCicco, encargado del comité de relaciones públicas de la Society for American Archaeology y publicado en American Antiquity, es una discusión util y comprensíva pero con una limitatión seria. El artículo de DeCicco (1988) es una guía téchnica para generar relaciones públicas basadas en diarios; sin embargo, éste considera sólo escasamente las preguntas fundamentales sobre qué decir y para qué usar relaciones públicas. En esta posdata al texto de DeCicco, yo discuto la importancia de reconocer estas dos preguntas y de articular las respuestas a éllas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 608 - 613
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990 

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