PR vs Advertising?

Question

What's the difference between a degree in public relations and one in advertising. Also, how does the job a public relations specialist carry out differ from that of an advertiser. Thank you

Answer 1

The two are completely different. Advertising is an attempt to sell something, whereas public relations is the concept of helping an organization to display a good "immage" to the general public.  A company needs to maintain a good reputation, so that people will trust and believe in them and see them as a good company with which to do business. The people or the department within a given company who's job it is to make this happen are "public relations" people. I  suppose in the end, it's still all about sales, or referrals and to that end, PR is advertising. And, a good ad campaign would have a high degree of PR in their script. Ok, so, they are different but the same. Oh well, I tried.