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more about #flackery more comments → Penscribe: I missed this item. Thanks for the link back in today's item. more » Mediahohoho: I wasn't aware that producing pure bullshit propaganda entailed that much overhead. Go figure. more » Spirit Fingers: I'm more offended by the mashed potatoes. How can you abide by dry taters? Yah, yah, the chopped monkey ass-meat (with hair) to the right looks to be... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I believe that I posted a haggis wikipedia entry in the comments, to the general amusement of those not acquainted with this special culinary item more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Suggested pairing: a vibrant young manischewitz that will bring out and play counterpoint to the greasy undertone of the suet. more » TedSez: I posted this Monty Python favorite in the comments long ago, but I think it's time for a replay: Horace Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay Horace ate... more » OliversArmy: This may be the funniest thing Alton Brown has ever done: more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Dude, man, haggis is delicious. more » Matt Cherette: Am I just starving or does that look really freaking good? more » Claire Buoyant: With all your coverage of gay-rights issues, I'm surprised these people haven't sent you any press releases. more » Don Is: I bet VirusWithShoes has something to do with this. more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: Just like Britney Spears gets those press releases from Vlasic. more » RollsRoyceRevenge: I thought it was something to do with Casey Johnson. "Blah blah blah, this hag is fucking heinous, blah blah blah." more » StonedAndDethroned: [Disclosure: Neal Boulton once commissioned a blowjob from me and reciprocated by screaming "I'M NOT GAY!" before I even had a chance to swallow so I ... more » manchops: As I've always said, NEVER trust a male "bisexual." Seriously. more » -
#pressreleaseoftheday
So You're Into Haggis?
Yesterday we received a press release. It declared, "Hello! I recently found your blog post about Haggis and want to introduce you to our website." Oh? Which blog post was that? More » -
#media
God Damn Neal Boulton Somehow Co-Opts Tiger Woods Publicity
Who is the big winner in this Salacious Tiger Woods Sex Scandal? Self-promoting pansexual former gay magazine editor Neal Boulton. More » -
#requestforinformation
Get Ready for Blogger Shameless Tuesday (And Help Us, Too)
Starting tomorrow, new FTC regulations require bloggers to disclose when they accept cash or freebies for posts. Appropriately enough, fameball queen Julia Allison is leading this coming wave of embarrassing confessionals, with a disclosure about her insides. More » -
#flackery
Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)
We feel it is important for PR professionals to be aware—for the record—that the owner of the PR-centric media guide Bulldog Reporter is an odious free speech-hater and enemy of journalism. [Update: Letter from Sinkinson added below]. More » -
#lolsuits
The Reign of the Douche
A year ago, interrupty superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian filed America's Greatest Lawsuit when he sued rival flack Drew Kerr for $20 million(!) for setting up a website—RonnTorosianPR.com—with a picture of a douche ad on it. Douche sayswhat? More » -
#media
BusinessWeek Layoffs Make Fools of Optimists
The long-expected BusinessWeek layoffs came down yesterday, with 130 staffers let go—a full third of its employees. Is it fair to call that a "surprise?" More » -
#spitzerfiles
Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Being So Nice to Flacks
PR Week, a trade journal for and about flacks, has come to the defense of the New York Times after we published a batch of emails showing how deferential some Times reporters were to flacks. Imagine that! More » -
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#stalin
Russian Government Seeks PR Firm to Make Stalin Seem Nice
He may have murdered 20 million people, but good PR can change anything! A state news agency is approaching big firms to "rewrite history." No word yet on whether the team behind Eliot Spitzer are considering it. More » -
#pressreleaseoftheday
'Tune In to Find Out What Sex Is Like for Lauren and What 2 Vaginas Looks Like!'
PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgment of a sober judge. You can't just wildly issue press releases like, "Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!" Or can you? More » -
#feuds
Microsoft Flacks Banned 'Forever' Over a 'Significantly Less Blue' Scoop
Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch publisher and noted feuding diva, has "banned" Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom for a blown embargo. Forever. What huge scoop was stolen from him, by Microsoft's terrorist network? More » -
#pressreleases
Attention, White Party-Goers
Press Release of the Day: Epic Hotel in Miami has some epic deals. Ah ah ah; White Party-Goers only! More » -
#flackery
Glenn Beck's Liberal Flack Loves Money More Than Liberalism
Glenn Beck's public image as a grandiose paranoid ex-drunk is so unshakable that now he's hoping his publicist Matthew Hiltzik's good reputation will rub off on him: He's got such a nice flack, he can't really be a monster, right? More » -
#edelman
Huge PR Firm Has Bunch of
Here is just the latest example of how a large PR agency can be a huge, huge, huge, hustle, staffed by hustlers, who will charge you too much money to do dumb, simple things, on the internet. Edelman! More »KidsDigital PR Strategists -
#flackery
Facebook's New Flack: Pretty But Dumb?
Facebook has named Andrew Noyes, one of the 50 prettiest people in DC, as its public policy communications manager. But the Congress Daily-reporter-turned-flack is already muddling Facebook's message: More » -
#love
Let's Break the Kushner-Trump Wedding Photo Monopoly
New York Observer owner Jared Kushner finally wed Ivanka Trump this weekend. Kushner (repped by Rubenstein PR) sold the only wedding photo to the NY Post (also repped by Rubenstein). How tastelessly flacky. We have a better idea. More » -
#stalkers
Ali Wise, Attacked and Defended
Check out this picture of disgraced Dolce & Gabbana flack-turned alleged felon voicemail hacker Ali Wise being like, "OMG...Muscle Milk Light?!" What? Oh, today's news: Ali Wise was mean, say snitches. Others say: Nuh uh! More » -
#publicrelations
Ali Wise Confident These Crazy Stalking Charges Won't Hurt Her Career
Pretty blond fashion PR women can get away with anything—except being charged with surreptitiously hacking the voicemails of multiple romantic rivals in a fit of jealous insanity. That's not a good "PR Play," it turns out. Sorry, Ali Wise.
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#flackery
Carol Bartz Too Sick To Explain Financial Performance
Carol Bartz has "come down with something," Yahoo's chief financial officer tells Wall Street, so the CEO was absent from a third-quarter earnings call. Whoops: Profits tripled this quarter, but Bartz's illness is a ready-made metaphor for Yahoo's falling revenue. More » -
#flackery
'Ronn. Ronn. Ronn!'
Incompetent superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian: Just when you're trying to ignore him, his outbursts interrupt an ABC newsman trying to interview fraudulent faith healer Benny Hinn. Twice. Ronn is such an asshole he embarrasses Benny Hinn. Watch and be amazed.
