Caged Reality – My Take on the World

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Stand By!

The other day my public relations teacher hit my class with this quote by Wayne Gretzky: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”

 He then asked us to think about where the future of public relations was headed.

I set in my room for awhile, pondering the question when it finally occured to me that I am the answer. Not literally, of course, what I meant was that the future of public relations was in students like myself.

The future will bring a multitude of new technologies allowing for more effective communication, but it is the people using this new technology who will decide the direction of public relations. Judging only from my fellow PR scholars, I’d say that the future will hopefully see a better working relationship between news outlets and PR specialists. I’d also like to think that we could solve our own Pr problem, that people would view public relations specialists as shapers of messages instead of spinners.

 Where is the future of public relations headed? In the right direction.

-Cage

Election time has come around again! I’m not speaking about the United States presidential race, but elections for student governments and other clubs.

 In my college paper today there was a opinion published about Oklahoma States own student government elections. The writer apparently thought it cute when he stated that he didn’t really care who the candidates were or what their platforms consisted of, but he that he voted for whoever’s name came first because voting was “fun”.

I found the article greatly offensive. 

With all the PSA’s telling people to participate in the elections, including the infamous “Vote or Die” campaign, I have to wonder if all these voters are actually taking time to consider the canidates or the issues. If a person is not well enough informed on what is going on, it is better to refrain from voting than to vote ignorantly.

Voting is civic duty, and if that duty cannot be completed to the best of someones ability, than they should not attempt to do it.

 -Cage