Known for being opinionated and controversial writer and master debater, Gore Vidal, has died. Today’s Public Relations and Advertising industry professionals, who the importance of creating a sleek personal brand and magnetic public identity, may want to embrace the one strategy that always steered Mr. Vidal’s lifestyle: be yourself.
Intelligent, and unapologetic creates better public relations than being insincere, disingenuous or pretending to be something you are not. Perhaps that is the legacy Mr. Vidal, who claimed to be the last of a unique generation of Americans, wanted us to take from his colorful life. Talented and witty, Mr. Vidal has much to offer today’s media stars who have parlayed PR campaigns into reality TV shows, perfumes and other vapid ventures that will only leave behind a legacy of hollow purchases and pointless conversations.
RIP Gore Vidal.