Reaction to Truth Merchants

The video was pretty interesting to me. It started off with a person working in public relations calling truth subjective, which I do not believe. Truth is and should be objective, and the opinions formed around it is what is subjective. However, this seems to be the basis of what public relations people do: try and give the public the truth that their clients want them to hear. I agree with the one media critic in the video that said something along the lines of not needing an over-paid adviser to help clean up his mistakes. Sometimes public relations can be a good thing for those clients that do have good intentions but are have their stories completely turned around. However, I feel that the opposite happens too often with public relations, with clients with none-too-noble intentions covering them up with the help of someone smooth-talking their way out of it.
Public relations definitely affects how my parents see things. I notice that if they hear it on television, they are most likely going to go along with the opinion, since there aren't many other sources of information.