In Public Relations you are often faced with ethical issues. While working for a firm, or independently you will be presented with negative outcomes. Not all crises' situations can be turned into a positive situation. Although it is said that all publicity is good publicity, there is also the ethical issue to be considered when dealing with the crisis.
In the case of Rhianna and Chirs Brown, it has been argued that it was wrong for Rhianna’s pictures to be given to the press. Although she is famous some believe she should have been treated like any other woman who was beaten by their boyfriend.
Is it ethically right as her publicist to release information about the beatings, or was it handled correctly? Would you have released more information or pictures of Rhianna? What would you have done differently?
-Rebecca Brockschmidt
2 comments:
I agree that people working the the field of public relations are often faced with ethical issues. I feel that Rhianna's publicist was wrong to release information and pictures of the beating. Although Rhianna is a public figure, in a case of domestic violence, I feel that everyone is entitled to their privacy. In this case, I do not feel that it was at all ethical to release any information.
Although I love reading about celebrity gossip, I feel that issues such as this should be kept private unless the victim is okay with releasing the information. People love to exploit celebrities because they are public figures, but in all actuality they are just people like you and me.
I agree with Allyse. Just because Rhianna is famous does not mean that her pictures of physical abuse should be released out in the open, especially if she doesn't want them to be. If Rhianna did want to release her photo, then maybe her publicist could have released it in a more fitting way. For example Rhianna could have put on a seminar or charity event for battered women and explained to those women her sad story, while using the pictures to help describe what happens in an abusive relationship. Seeing the photos for the first time at this event may have had a larger impact on these women to stay away from abusive relationships. Maybe that would have been a more proper and respectful way of releasing the images. Everyone would have been in agreenment and it would have been for a good support event for battered women.
~Lindsay W.
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