Today’s Globe and Mail offers this lede: “The military board of inquiry investigating the fatal blaze aboard HMCS Chicoutimi will not be a public relations exercise crafted to boost the image of Canada’s navy, one of the Canadians who is taking part said Monday. ” The article quoted the official as saying that the inquiry would not be an exercise is “relentless positivism.”

And here I thought public relations would have been the effort to ensure the public got the facts coming out of the board of inquiry.

The public has a dim view of us despite the fact that most public relations efforts are balanced and beneficial. One wonders when the organizations representing the profession will turn their aadvocacy efforts outward.