PR gaffe delivers unintended press

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edit30, August 5, 2009

PR's Rule One—check facts when editing copy—is becoming a forgotten art in the Internet environment. Failure to follow such basic communications principles can have embarrassing and widely publicized results as the Minnesota Democratic Party recently discovered, and was validated in an AP report that was picked up by CBS News and other media outlets.

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