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Informing the people : a public affairs handbook / edited by Lewis M. Helm [and others]

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Helm, Lewis M., 1931-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Longman, ℗♭1981.
Series:Longman series in public communication.
Subjects:
Government publicity > United States.
Government information > United States.
Government information.
Government publicity.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Overview
  • A model of the government communication process / Ray Eldon Hiebert
  • Historical perspectives on government communication / David Herold
  • Government and the public information system / Scott M. Cutlip
  • Problems with government advocacy : a journalist's view / Edward Cowan
  • Part II. Legal framework
  • Development of public information laws / Anne S. Runyan
  • The Freedom of Information Act / Russell M. Roberts
  • How the FOI has been used / Mal Schechter
  • Government's role in protecting privacy / Robert Ellis Smith
  • The right to know vs. protection of privacy : the IRS case / A. James Golato
  • National security : the limits of public information / George A. Carver, Jr.
  • Part III. Techniques of public information
  • Factors affecting government communication staffing / Kenneth Rabin
  • Potentials in use of the news media / Margaret Rhoades
  • Strategic use of the news media / Lewis M. Helm
  • Government media for internal and external audiences / Michael R. Naver
  • Special events for government communication / Bernard Posner
  • The rising role of advertising / Kenneth Rabin
  • Public service announcements as free advertising / Robert A. Cuccia
  • Social marketing, a new tool / Kenneth Rabin
  • Communicating with Congress : the lobbying function / Michael W. Dolan
  • Completing the process : research and evaluation / Ray Eldon Hiebert and Kenneth Rabin
  • Part IV. Managing communication : theory and cases
  • Increasing the role of planning / Kenneth Rabin and Richard Franzen
  • Meeting the problems of crises, Agnes : the politics of a flood / Lewis M. Helm
  • Sunshine mine : handling the media in a disaster / Lewis M. Helm
  • Siege of the BIA building : centralizing the function / Robert A. Kelly
  • Part V. Programs and practices
  • The White House : center stage for government / Walter Wurfel
  • Congress : toward an electronic revolution / John W. Eddinger
  • The Supreme Court : information with justice / Barrett McGurn
  • State Department : communication with diplomacy / William D. Blair, Jr.
  • HHS : a public affairs conglomerate / Lewis M. Helm
  • Department of Agriculture : a structural model / Edie Fraser and Wes Pedersen
  • Commerce Department : business as a special public / Ernest Lotito
  • Interior Department : a traditional approach / Anne S. Runyan
  • Department of Defense : a world-wide operation / Edie Fraser and Wes Pedersen
  • Part VI. Appendixes
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Federal Advisory Committee Act
  • The Privacy Act
  • Open Meetings Act
  • OMB guidelines on public surveys
  • GAO audit of public affairs at HEW
  • Tentative standards for the classification and qualification of public affairs specialists.

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