Anton Vuima - Darkness Public Relations

Many businesses have a lot of things that can make the public angry.For example, it can be a CEO’s too expensive car, a luxury office, enhanced enterprise, environmental emissions, hazardous industry, harassment someone’s rights, salary of staff in the company, the political ambitions of the director, notably business enterprises, etc.

The goal of this method is to find the one object that can can make the public angry. Then disclose facts that disturb the public. Finally, the public anger is out and you have to stretch it for as long as you can.

This method is not based on a fact, but on the alleged desire or thought of anyone. It is always possible to prove the falsity or correctness of any material fact. But it is not almost possible to prove that a person was not thinking about anything. Thoughts within our minds are closed. And they are more closed when they have occurred in the past. So it is always possible to start a Black PR capmapign against any person’s or group’s plans and ideas, which they did not even think about. Or they migh think about, but did not make them public.

Many labor groups spread intrigues, and this is especially characteristic of women’s groups. And I have repeatedly watched literally nest of intrigue in regular education schools and institutions. In these organizations, people get paid a penny, but they have a lot of weaving plots against each other. And it is enough just to say something a little bit negative and it will be treated as if you are his worst enemy and think of his shift. And what it is more interesting, it is that in such groups they often use a completely made-up arguments. But you can say the same, and that is something people thought about or what he was not going to think about, and you just can take an advantage of this fact.

However, what happens between people in person is very different from what is happening in the PR, where the personal contact, usually excludes. In person one can say with a straight face that he’s telling the truth, and he believed, when he saw his expression and tone of voice, which are well known to all the participants of the event. In PR it can not be done in this way.

But PR practitioner can use a virtual dirt. You need to figure out what can the attacked group of people think about the target audience. And then you need to publish this virtual compromising and bring any available evidence of it’s fidelity. It is funny, but most often this works even without incriminating evidence. The target audience can get questioned: «But there is really something. But are they really going to do? «And this doubt already has the result. Then they will look for evidence to support or refuse their doubts and their brain will soon find hundreds of proofs of your words, because many facts can be interpreted in different ways. And if any of the people transforms to the image of the «bad person», later any of his actions will begin to be treated as the urge to evil.

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Certain practices of black PR-campaign will be discussed in other sections of the book. It is important to know that the technology oof PR should be used only with all existed methods on a very quality level. This chapter gives a general idea of the black PR-campaign, a kind of a shell, which must be supplemented by technology, as described below.

Most Black PR-companies need to be passed through the public non-profit organizations.Both existing and as specially created community and organizations can be involved.

Use of non-governmental organizations can be left in the shadows of the customer company. You do not need to fight this company from his face and somehow participate in this.

Black PR-campaign should pursue the good, useful for society purposes. It should support the idea of goodness and justice.

Must be raised doubts in some vital property of a competitor, rather than trying to completely discredit the property. No need to expose directly – you need to generate consumer uncertainty in use of a competitor’s service or goods. It is better if there will be a negative opinion about the competitor in the minds of the target audience due to their own conclusions, and not because of your information.

It is important to choose a subject of attack in a right way and attack the target audience.

In the absence of compromising competitor’s information you can use indirect evidence to the «correct» information accents.

In fact, to defend against such attacks is more difficult than to attack itself. In world practice, there are many cases where brilliant politicians and companies only due to the inability to fight off an information attack, organized by their political opponents, just crashed their own reputation. Sometimes erroneous protection built in that way, so that instead of neutralizing the enemy’s attack, it is increasing it. These errors occur as a consequence of not understanding the nature of information attacks. PR-attack fundamentally different from the war, where even a small force is still damaging. A large army which goes straight to the enemy could easily defeat him. It is not like this. Walking straight and answering rebuttals can bring you to a position of a loser.

At the same time, you can successfully fight off an attack, if you act right, using complex workarounds. Moreover, by using a porper methods you can beat off the attacks, even when the consequences of their impact are very significant.

Before you deal with the attacks of your competitors, it is important to understand the essence of the attacks, and to understand the types of them.

There are 4 basic types of information attacks:

.Professional information attack.

· Nonprofessional attack.

· Spontaneous attack.

· Spontaneous attack, supported by stakeholders.

Professional attack is always used by professional PR-managers, or even the whole PR-agency. It is built according to the main and the most effective rules of black PR and the effective use of all available resources. To fight back such an attack is very difficult and often nearly impossible. Very often the real person who made an attack is hidden and everything looks like an actions of some other organizations.

Unprofessional attack usually begins with the fact that one of your competitors has decided to use an information attack practices and started to do it by himself. Often, in this case, there are custom-made ordered articles or registered telecast. Content is usually is not much important and in you canproperly see that this is the custom paper (ordered). Typically, these attacks are not safe and can inflict heavy damage. You better ignore them and do not respond. Sometimes to fight them does not make any sense, and what is most common, to publish a rebuttal is a ig mistake, because denial can strengthen the attack and will make it proven.

Spontaneous attack is when your business is affected by someone’s interests. Construction company could face the interests of residents who stay in near lying areas. Oil company, faced with the interests of inhabitants of nearby towns. You can also hurt the interests of the diplomatic missions, national communities, etc. Touching someone’s interests should expect a response and you have to be to prepared for it.

Often spontaneous attack supported by interested in it publics. This can be soething, like public organizations interested in the contributions and popularity among the people. It can be political institutions and individual politicians, as well as just your competitors. It should also be noted that dissatisfied people are actively complaining to all authorities and somewhere there may be and even your personal enemies. By getting support this event can be very dangerous and can grow up into a strong professional black PR.