Publicity vs Flack - What's the difference?
publicity | flack |
Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
Public interest attracted in this way.
The condition of being the object of public attention.
a publicist, a publicity agent
*1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith ,
*:Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
*1999 , Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross,
*:Thought you were flack ," she said.
*:"I'm not flack ."
*:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."
to publicise, to promote
* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
As nouns the difference between publicity and flack
is that publicity is advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something while flack is flake (esp of snow).publicity
English
(wikipedia publicity)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* publicity hound * publicity stuntflack
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)page 25
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Verb
(en verb)- [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.