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more about #pr more comments → Choire: Why can't I get my pitchfork lit on fire using my torch? Am I doing it wrong? #newyorktimes more » El_Gato: I imagine Shelly Ross will be extremely furious with Christine Anderson for talking such smack behind her back. I never understood why people who work... more » snugbug: No current or future story on Spitzer can ever hope to trump that NY mag cover that so sucintly and perfectly summarized his persona & M.O. back in Ma... more » GORDONGARTRELLE: "Can you send" me -- communications director for the governor of the State of New York -- a New York Daily News article. "Unreal" indeed. #today more » gladys_kravitz: I hope Silda gave the doorman a good holiday tip for having to deal with all these asses. #today more » Hockeymom: The most interesting thing about this is that working for Shelly Ross is still worse than working for a Governor who has a hooker habit. #today more » Magister: Lt. Gov Paterson's strong and storied leadership Um... okay. Did he have a backstory? 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 » -
#shesbaaaaack
Accused Psycho Stalker Ali Wise Still Has a Job and Will Host an Event on Friday
Looks like Ali Wise really is good at damage control. Despite being charged with four felonies for hacking into her ex's romantic interests' cellphone accounts, Ali has a job, and will host a pop-up store opening on Friday. More » -
#spitzerfiles
The Spitzer Files: How TV Talking Heads Get Their Cues from Flacks
In our third installment from the Spitzer Files—our collection of e-mails between Eliot Spitzer's flack and reporters at the height of his hooker scandal—we congratulate the reporters who actually try to learn things before they go on TV. 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 » -
#spitzerfiles
The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
For our next installment of the Spitzer Files—our collection of e-mails between flacks and reporters during Eliot Spitzer's downfall—we bring you the tale of the Today producer who offered to help a flack find a job at NBC.
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#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 » -
#pr
Shocker! Fox News' PR People Caught Lying About Something!
Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart got an e-mail from Fox News last week that he thought was funny, and posted about it on Twitter. Fox News flacks said the network never sent the e-mail. They lied. More » -
#hacks
Politico Apologizes For Being Politico
Usually when people accuse Politico of cutting-and-pasting GOP press releases into their stories, they're speaking metaphorically. But no—that's what they actually do. They select the angry words, hit the "copy" thing, and paste them right onto the internet. More » -
#flackery
Star Shamelessly Hyping Its Reporter's Fling with Jon Gosselin
Today's shameless press release of the day: Star Magazine issued a statement tonight merrily touting the fact that one of their reporters, Kate Major, is getting boned by douche-y octodad Jon Gosselin. Yeah. More » -
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#darkgalleys
The Devil Reps Prada: A Lizzie Grubman Tell-All
Lizzie Grubman, lobster-faced PR woman and runner-over-of regular people, once had an assistant named Robert Rave. That since-disillusioned young man has now published a roman à clef about a boy working for a fearsome PR dragon. We've got a manuscript! More » -
#flackery
Dark, Powerful Forces Are Determined to Destroy Charmaine Blake
Yesterday we published the best and worst press release of all time from Charmaine Blake, "the most famous publicist," while she was on a date with Cliff Clavin. Now we've received an email from her "friend" claiming we've been "deceived." More » -
#flackery
Shameless Press Release of the Day: 'Rihanna's Court Style'
By now you may have heard Chris Brown copped a plea Monday in a Los Angeles court. Maybe then you found yourself wondering, "Gee...I wonder what Rihanna wore to court today?" Well, Michele Marie PR wants everyone to know! More » -
#markpenn
'Pollster Grifter' Bilks Innocent Secretary Out of $2.3 Million
To answer Time's headline: NO. Mark Penn should not get paid. He should be put in a box with insects. But apparently that is not an option! More » -
#disasters
'Octomom' Loses Her Publicists
Not even usually scruplesless LA PR flacks are immune to the public outcry over Nadya Suleman, that lady who made science give her 14 children. She's been dropped by the pair that was representing her. More » -
#pr
'Shopaholic' Stunt Turns Woman Against Woman In Brutal Ice-Chipping Stiletto War
If you still don't agree that Isla Fisher might be cursed, we've got publicity-stunt proof just in from the Garden State. More » -
#meta
How Not to Treat People When Pitching Them Stories
Just when you think PR folks and bloggers got along semi-decently, you get a report of one such exchange where the PR person challenges the blogger to a fistfight. Updated 2:43 PM EST [Gizmodo]
