Thank You For Scoffing

My mind has millions of  thoughts crossing across and all sorts of questions popping up.

One of these thoughts which I stumbled across is - what sort of PR have movies done for the Public Relation Industry. Following which I could not resist watching a few movies which have apparently been made around the Public Relation Industry or portray a public relation practitioner as their main protagonist. To begin with I watched Thank You For Smoking , which indeed is a interesting piece to spend two hours on. But at the end of it , it would not lend the viewer a perspective in which he can see the PR industry in a good light. The poster for this movie read - Don't hide the truth , Just filter it. Now what kind of influence is this going to be on someone who is still in the beginner stages of forming an perception about this industry.Also , Aaron Eckhart who plays Nick Naylor in the movie is titled as the merchant of death. Now , he was certainly not trying to kill people but plainly serving his client which any other lobbyist would do for his respective client.