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The @FT’s take on Tim Bell is on the money. I worked for him one. I remember sitting in the meeting where he closed down our section and thinking “OMG, he still thinks we live in the 70s”. For him, it was all about charm and connections. 
But you cant dismiss him and his legacy as history. The “morality free” approach he championed (“everyone deserves representation- legal and public”) is shaping our world now.
If you hear of Western PR companies working with Gulf governments that dismember journalists and think “how do they justify helping those people”.. think Tim Bell.
If you watched @thegreathackdoc and wondered how Cambridge Analytica’s Britaney Kaiser could so casually defend working on the Trump campaign with “we were just putting all the info out there for people to make their own decisions”... also, think of Tim Bell
So @guthriejbiz is right to suggest the world moved beyond the charm and rolodex version of PR that Tim Bell helped found, but keep in mind, we will be living with his impact on our world for many years to come.
