Absolutley, its better to have lost the game than never having played at all:-)

Unless it is really really bad.

Just how bad could it possibly be?

To the curious who might be interested in what P.T. Barnum said, might have said, or was alleged to have said, the following website has hundreds of images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=p.t.+barnum+quotes&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR9cXFwLTiAhX26XMBHeraCowQ7Al6BAgKEA8&biw=1920&bih=937

Dear Michael John McAleer and Chia-Lin Chang,

Please, see the article “The Disadvantages of Bad Publicity” (on April 16, 2018), available at

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/disadvantages-bad-publicity-3495.html.

To Romeo:

It is true that bad publicity can be bad for business.

However, do you think that President Trump would agree?

I do not know. (I'm not dealing with business and politics).

To Romeo:

I am sure you have heard of President Trump's famously dismissive attacks on "Fake News", which relates to anything and everything n the media that is not entirely favourable to him.

Trump's standard operating procedure is to "Deny, deny, deny", and then to deny again - just in case you missed it the first time.

Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner (with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate Scandal for the Washington Post) Robert Woodward's book on "Fear: Trump in the White House", lays it out clearly and cogently:

https://observer.com/2018/09/deny-deny-deny-trumps-playbook-for-metoo-accusations-according-to-woodward/

Dear Michael John McAleer:

Thank you for a detailed and illuminating account of how President Trump seems to be able to turn bad publicity into "Fake news", or to his advantage.

It takes quite a skill to turn bad news into "fake news", or into no news at all.

To Chia-Lin Chang:

I agree that it takes an inordinate amount of skill to ignore bad news and to transform it into "fake news".

To Chia-Lin Chang:

I agree with your excellent Answer to your statement.

A related interesting thread is:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_better_to_be_rejected_or_ignored

Being ignored means no publicity.

No publicity means being ignored.

if your publicity should be good. will never forgot forever. but bad cause ill treat to that person

To Nagalakshmi Radhakrishnan :

Many thanks for your clear and helpful Answer.

I would like to thank all the academics who have provided interesting and stimulating Answers to the Question.

Publicity is generally taken to mean attention given to an animate or inanimate object via the media.

Whether publicity might be good or bad, or even very bad, is a matter of subjective judgment and perspective.

Any Q&A thread related to the RG score generates a lot of publicity.

There is no such thing as bad publicity related to the RG score.

Dear Chia-Lin Chang:

Many thanks for your interesting Answer about the publicity and popularity of the RG score.

I wish to thank all the respondents for their interesting, challenging, informative, instructive, innovative, topical, timely, entertaining, and occasionally highly amusing, Answers.

Overall, the publicity regarding the RG score seems to be more negative than positive.

However, many academics seem to take an interest in their RG score, despite protesting that it is meaningless.

I agree with your assessment.

Criticism and praise for Questions earn the same number of Reads, though Recommendations are presumably for praise rather than criticism.

To Chia-Lin Chang:

You are spot on about positive and negative responses leading to the same number of Reads, though not Recommendations.

Absolutley, its better to have lost the game than never having played at all:-)

To Jennifer:

Perfectly succinct and perfect Answer.

Many thanks.

To Sajda Taha Mahmood :

Many thanks for your helpful and interesting Answer.

Bad publicity has all the makings of developing propaganda thus allowing us to utilize it as a tool for discovering and researching for the truth for our future scholars. In my opinion, the publicity that incites hatred, violence, or other form of intimidation are the ones we should be more concerned about because it's downright ugly.

To Ravee Art Phoewhawm :

Many thanks for your interesting Answer on truth and propaganda.

Following

To Jasim Hassen:

Thank you for your interest in the Question.

To Sajda Taha Mahmood :

Many thanks for your thoughtful and informative Answer.

I do not agree, I like things to be in a clarified form.

To Zeyad Mohammad :

Many thanks for your direct and contrary Answer.

I do not agree with those who say that there is no bad publicity because there are many bad advertisements against good people or even specific countries through the yellow press

To Shakir Tuleab :

Thank you for your carefully crafted Answer.

To Nirmala S.V.S.G :

Thank you for your agreeable Answer.

If there is no bad publicity 'yellow journalism' term is then obsolete'

To Harasit Kumar Paul :

Many thanks for your interesting Answer.