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more about #flacks more comments → Choire: Why can't I get my pitchfork lit on fire using my torch? Am I doing it wrong? #newyorktimes more » Valerie Flame: At the very least, Gawker got some higher quality commenters out of this one. You'll learn more about reporting here than in four years of J-school. ... more » bucklerg: Checking facts is always good, but you don't send a verbatim quote from your story to a PR person and ask "can I do this?" Not even to maintain the re... more » Paddington: Whose idea was this little expose? Did one of these former flaks say to someone at Gawker, hey, maybe there's good stuff here ... ? Just curious. Be... more » abettertomorrow: Anything in the emails about the original source of the story? A lot of talking about "scoop" and "broke" but isn't it more likely that the Times was... more » El_Gato: It sounds like you guys were expecting something very sensational and Hollywood-esque, like Danny Hakim telling the flack that her ass was grass and t... more » stripedcoffeecup: The Times went too far, in this former tabloid sleazeball's opinion, by sharing the actual text of the upcoming story with the flak. You can read back... more » LatestBy: Is it wrong that I most enjoyed that Christine Anderson thinks there's a man named Ethan Ghetto walking this earth who isn't a rapper? Geto is still a... more » al.balboa: seems like good reporting to me. By being civil, Hakim got the cell# of Kirton and an"I'll let you know if shes talking to anyone". They broke the s... more » joe.furmanek: Congrats Gawker. You've discovered that the Times checks its quotes before publishing. more » the_woog: i'm with the naysayers: this is how news gets done. The proof is in what actually makes it into print. You work sources the way you work them -- some ... more » Jacob Wright: Well Gawker, think you've misplayed this one. The NYT comes across as courteous and professional - allowing the people they're writing about the righ... more » freckles: Well thank God for PR people and their devotion to not misleading newspaper readers! (ok, now I'm going to look out the window and see a flying pig? ... more » oyboy: This seems to me like Gawker, in its relentless (and idiotic) quest to demonstrate its superiority over the mainstream media, is intentionally miscon... more » Mike Jahn: Dunno about all this. My first take is that the Times was being polite by asking but probably would have run what it wanted to run anyway. And a "do ... 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 » -
#exclusive
The Spitzer Files: How the New York Times and the Press Serviced Client No. 9
The New York Times broke the story of Eliot Spitzer's hooker habit last year, launching a PR shitstorm of epic proportions. But according to e-mail traffic we've obtained, the Times showed Spitzer's flacks extraordinary deference as the scandal unfolded. 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 » -
#pollstergrifter
Mark Penn Now Helping to Destroy the Housing Market
Does trying to convince people unsure about the shaky economy and plunging home values to sign mortgages seem like a good idea, right now? Pollster Grifter Mark Penn thinks so! More » -
#getrichquick
Mark Penn: Either Buy or Sell Right Now
Oh. Damn. Microtrend-spotting evil flack Mark Penn has struck upon the way to get rich. And he reveals it today, in his microtrend column! Totally. Ironclad. Moneymaking. This is why he's much wealthier than you: More » -
#newspapers
Brian Tierney: Sam Zell With Hair
Brian Tierney was a bulldog Philadelphia PR man much hated by Philadelphia journalists before he led a group that bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News in 2006. Let's review how that's worked out: More » -
#failures
Inept Man Invents Trends For Imaginary Audience
Professional loser Mark Penn—the strategist who can tell you exactly how to become disliked by each individual microsegment of the population—has a newbook adWSJ column. Let's talk about how stupid it is: More » -
