At the same time, we'd like to put across a message from today's ceremony, a message of peace … A message for Europe.
On Old Rock n Roll they put across a message of unity rather than an "us versus them" mentality: "I'm tired of playing the good black…I'm tired of blaming the white man... a black man can play him.
Astley writes: "In politics, television, newspapers and advertising, language is often negative, reductive, stripped of full expression to put across a message – it's spun or twisted out of recognition … Instead of being used to communicate, it is used to control thinking, as a tool of power".
Even with someone who is normally polite, they may be struggling to put across a message effectively using the email rather than aiming to be rude.
She uses that skill to put across a powerful message that is always elegantly framed".
Remember each of these writers is not just telling you stuff that happened because it happened, they each are writing a book intending to put across a theological message.
I think that's important in YA books, especially books with fantasy or supernatural elements because it brings them back to reality and puts across a real life message as well as a great fantasy or supernatural story.
But that's just one small side of PR; PR can also mean putting across a positive message that happens to be true.
The service was designed to give musicians a fairer deal and bigger share of streaming profits, but put across a bit of a mixed message at its launch by placing the world's biggest artists at its fore, implying that users should be worrying over whether Madonna or Nicki Minaj's pockets are sufficiently lined.
Here too Atwood is putting across a relevant and intelligent political message, which can easily be summed up: don't trust the scientists and the big corporations to run the world.
