According to Mr. Diamond there are three different types of people to deal with in PR work. There is the public, policy, and opinion people. public deals with people such as family members, Policy deals with people like people who donate grants, and the opinion people are people who work in the media.
He says his job is basically built on relationships to other people. He has to work with all sorts of people, trying to fix any complaints they have at the University of Maine. He says you always have to be accountable for what you say and to “always tell the truth and hope you get caught in it.”
His guest appearance in our class was helpful and entertaining. His job does sound interesting, but not what I am interested in doing.