Online Public Relations Thoughts

It is clear nobody checked the resume and statements by Congressional Rep. George Santos of Long Island.  Nearly everything he said and wrote was a lie.  Yet, he was elected for a two-year term and the Republican Speaker of the House has decided to seat him.  His fabrications were not even spin in which facts are twisted to fit a narrative.  They were false in every detail.  Santos is the peak of amoral communication untethered to reality and designed to mislead.  He is not the first to bamboozle the public.  He won't be the last.  This is why accuracy is so important to public relations.  Practitioners persuade based on a set of facts rather than an array of lies.  Santos might be able to serve out his term but he won't be re-elected and he might go to jail.  PR practitioners have an example of what not to do.