Posted on 10/19/2011 1:48:42 PM PDT by martosko
Workhouse Publicity, a PR firm that has promoted the Occupy Wall Street protests, represents clients including stalwart capitalist brands Mercedez-Benz, Versace and Virgin Megastore, The Daily Caller has learned.
The boutique luxury communications firm’s president also offered his services to the famed hacktivist collective, Anonymous.
Workhouse president Adam Nelson insisted in a phone interview Tuesday that while he does work with Occupy Wall Street, neither his firm nor the movement opposes capitalism. Indeed, he made a guest appearance on billionaire real-estate mogul Donald Trump’s TV show, ‘The Apprentice,” in 2004.
Now, however, Nelson’s two worlds — the capitalist client list and the activist protest set — are colliding. And the showman and self-promoter may have violated his own rule of PR: Never become the subject of your own campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedc.com ...
People should look harder at these PR firms.
...because every “grass roots,” independent, multi-city movement hires one PR firm to represent them all.
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