Item: One popular PR yearbook estimates that news releases influence as much as 80 percent of the news. Item: Other studies show that up to half or more of the content in publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal originate from press releases or PR story suggestions. Dr. Michael Turney of Northern Kentucky U adds

I want to applaud the Carolina fans on for the grace with which they are dealing with last night’s defeat. One Carolina fan I correspond with has continued nonstop with the stream of excusemongering he began early yesterday – literally hours before the game even started. So far he has blamed just about everybody short of the Trilateral Commission for