{"id":1205,"date":"2007-12-04T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/left-leaning-pr-flacks-spin-doctors-host-media-training\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:30:13","slug":"left-leaning-pr-flacks-spin-doctors-host-media-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/left-leaning-pr-flacks-spin-doctors-host-media-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-leaning PR flacks, spin doctors host media training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truespinconference.com\/images\/logo.gif\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"True Spin Conference logo\" title=\"True Spin Conference logo\" \/>PR people hate being called flacks. And they despise the word &#8220;spin.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not the left-leaning PR pros hosting the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truespinconference.com\" rel=\"noopener\">True Spin Conference<\/a>\u00a0Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in\u00a0Denver,\u00a0 Colorado. It&#8217;s a media relations training session with panels, workshops and networking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This conference brings together flacks from progressive advocacy groups around the country to exchange ideas and learn new and creative PR tactics,&#8221; the press release says. &#8220;Officials from giant corporations meet all the time to share their latest and greatest media relations strategies. This is our turn. It\u2019s the only national conference of its kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keynote Speakers are\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.longviewinstitute.org\/people\/dorfman\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Lori Dorfman<\/a>\u00a0of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmsg.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Media Studies Group<\/a>; Alan Jenkins\u00a0of The Opportunity Agenda\u00a0and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsirota.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">David Sirota<\/a>,\u00a0syndicated columnist and author of\u00a0Hostile Takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Most PR training conferences I attend have workshop titles\u00a0more potent than Ambien.\u00a0Not these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Do Progressives Suck at PR?<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Journalists Turned Flacks<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Using Web Tools to Megaphone and Hone Your Message (See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Let Bloggers Create Publicity for You.<\/a>&#8220;)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Be like PETA!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Pranks with a Purpose: A Report from the Front Lines of the New Creative Activism<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With fun titles\u00a0like that, it&#8217;s no wonder\u00a0last year&#8217;s Spin Conference <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truespinconference.com\/history.html\" rel=\"noopener\">sold out<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR people hate being called flacks. And they despise the word &#8220;spin.&#8221;\u00a0 But not the left-leaning PR pros hosting the\u00a0True Spin Conference\u00a0Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in\u00a0Denver,\u00a0 Colorado. It&#8217;s a media relations training session with panels, workshops and networking.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;This conference brings together flacks from progressive advocacy groups around the country to exchange ideas and\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/left-leaning-pr-flacks-spin-doctors-host-media-training\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[29],"class_list":{"0":"post-1205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40875,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/40875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}