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more about #image more comments → Joy_Rebar: Oh, I get it: 4As sounds like "Forays." Otherwise, the name brings to mind a 4H full of Tracy Flicks. more » hatey: I used to bartend at a hotel where PR/ad types would come to chill and host their functions. I could never figure out why they loved the place, but t... more » BadUncle: Working for an agency, you'll never be loved by anyone except your client (and then only if you do good work). But you can avoid being despised by not... more » econdave: I met a PR person at a conference over the weekend. She seemed like a very nice person, but something about the whole business comes across as unseeml... more » allyzay: i don't know a single non-manager who works in these fields who qualifies as "well-paid". i can name a couple writers, for example, who are better off... more » Plawf: i've always experienced a certain amount of cognitive knowing that by pursuing a career somewhere on the p.r./advertising/marketing continuum, i would... more » blix: Who flacks the Flackmen? more » Mount_Prion: + Watch video more » Tremonius: I caught one of them demographics of "mean income of $114 mil per." They were standing at a light ... which meant another city another time. There wer... more » Hamilton Nolan: Interpreting this as us saying we have a superior lifestyle would be very, very wrong. more » Cheap Shot: As if working for a blog is more rewarding? riiiight? more » Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux: My suspension of disbelief was o.k. with S.A.T.C. for the most part...but the fact that she worked at a WEEKLY newspaper? Every time that was mentione... more » pufflehuff: Um. Don't ignore the fact that SATC dealt with Carrie's financial woes! Two words for you: Charlotte's ring. It's the reason why I hang around my weal... more » ihateyourescalade: Okay, but um? Hamilton? You're not working at a magazine. You're working at the epicenter of the medium that is gleefully slobbering over the impendin... more » smithhimself: Smithhimself's life IS quite glamorous. Long drunken lunches with writers that adore his salty wit, then staggering back to the office where sharp-as-... more » -
#flackery
Fundamentally Dishonest Industries: 'Love Us!'
"There's an old saying, 'The cobbler's children have no shoes,'" flacks would say to me every single fucking time I wrote about the PR industry's reputation, at my old job. Advertising people: equally bad. More » -
#classwars
The Editorial Dream Lifestyle is Dead
Remember Sex and the City? Where writing a dating column for a living supported Carrie's extravagant lifestyle? Well, those days are over. As is your hope for a luxurious life. The middle class is back!
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#publicrelations
Private Jets: PR Poison
It used to be that private planes inspired hatred simply because their occupants were probably over-wealthy environmental hypocrites. But thanks to the recession, private jets are an even more radioactive populist issue. Fly and die! More » -
#advertising
Black Professionals in Ad Industry: 5%
The ad industry doesn't have too many black people working in it, which has never been that much of a concern to the whites. Until now, because a fancy lawyer might start suing everybody: More » -
