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more about #workingwiththepress more comments → Grandpapular: The war with Fox seems understaffed. Where are the ground troops when you need em? #media more » watertiger: Oh, dear. Expect another column mocking "Obama the Effeminate" from MoDo on Sunday. Nobody puts Modo in the corner . . . unless there's a fifth of sc... more » Magister: If you watch that one show on Fox less than regularly, when you hear Mara Liasson, you think NPR. One assumes that she got her invite because like a ... more » TheologicalSong: that's fitting, because Marshall's about as grown up as it gets. #media more » NorthernLite: This just in - people who like to be on "reality" shows are odd. Meanwhile, I hear the "news" networks interrupted coverage of Obama's Louisiana tri... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Did we figure out if he's the same Richard Heene who lived about 13 miles from CIA headquarters in mid 90's? Is he related to the guy who runs AdPa... more » jasonelias: The Heenes are exhausting even in small doses, the kids are basically nasty and rude people. I've seen their handiwork on quite a few clips on various... more » ampersandparade: I am still fairly concerned that this was an episode of Arrested Development. A flying machine that loses control? A child hidden in a crawl space? ... more » that charlie sedarka: This pizza is a hoax. more » Matt Cherette: Funnily enough, "computer geeks" is probably the nicest description anyone's ever given of 4chan members. #4chan more » atlasfugged: "We are not taking any interviews any more. We are tired". == "Our lawyer instructed us to no longer speak to the media". #4chan more » skymotel: Has anyone tried posing as a reality-show producer? Just a thought. #4chan more » The Curse of Millhaven: Kid: Deserves pizza, happy times. Possibly counseling. Parents: Deserve fines, jail time. Possibly counseling. #4chan more » Conchie Birdie: Media whoring is quite a tiresome job, but if you want a reality show, you better be up for the challenge. Suck it up, future-Gosselins. #4chan more » Iron Gossett Jr.: Mark my words. Someday, 4chan will save us all. #4chan more » -
#journalismism
Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
Because David Gergen, Jon Meacham, Howard Fineman, Mike Allen, Josh Marshall, David Brooks, and Gail Collins did! Also: Mara Liasson, who works for NPR and the Fox News Channel that Obama wants to destroy. More » -
#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 » -
#boyintheballoon
A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
Just in time for Balloon Boy's all-but-complete disappearance from the national spotlight, the computer geeks at 4chan apparently had a pizza delivered to the kid and his dysfunctional family. Now they're in hiding from the media. More » -
#videuhoh
Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Give Interviews
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has granted a rare interview so he can share such management expertise as: founders like himself are scientifically shown to be superior CEOs, according to a stat he heard once, somewhere, which "someone should probably look into." More » -
#moguls
Steve Jobs Psychodrama Unfolds at Apple's iPod Event
The big tech news today is Apple's expected unveiling of new iPod music players. How pedestrian. The subtext is far more gripping: The inevitable end of the Steve Jobs era at Apple, and whether it's yet upon us. More » -
#vacations
Obamas, Press Determined to Ruin Martha's Vineyard
Barack Obama is on vacation on Martha's Vineyard, with his family, his dog, and the traveling press corps. This is terrible news for that island's struggling community. More » -
#flackery
Apple Streisands Itself
Bryan Appleyard's lengthy Steve Jobs profile in the Times of London breaks no real news about the Apple CEO. And yet everyone's talking about it. Why? Because Apple tried so hard to stop the story. More » -
#birthdays
Obama Gives Helen Thomas Cupcakes For Her Birthday
White House Press Corps doyenne Helen Thomas turned 89 today! Coincidentally, today is also the day Barack Obama's grandparents chose when they forged Obama's birth certificate 48 years ago. Obama gave her cupcakes! More » -
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#payola
The Low, Low Price of a Blogger's Soul: A Pair of Plastic Shoes
A leading goal at the annual BlogHer conference is "economic empowerment" for female bloggers. For some participants, this means ample freebies; for at least one, it meant the chance to shake a company down for free shoes. More » -
#flackery
Amazon Buys Zappos, Gives Press the Boot
Amazon.com bought Zappos, the beloved online retailer of shoes, for $920 million, mostly in stock. Amazon's announcement was as direct as its business model; while reporters were calling the company in vain, CEO Jeff Bezos was dishing via YouTube. More » -
#valleywag
Slouching Toward a Coddled and Toothless Blogosphere
Remember when blogs were going to be fiercely independent firebrands who, purified of old media insidery stench, would pull no punches against traditional power structures? So much for that. Today's laptop media is shaping up to be nothing but lapdogs. More » -
#modernandawkward
Yahoo's Cuddly Flack Sends Adorable Email
There's some kind of sick good cop/bad cop deal going down at Yahoo. CEO Carol Bartz swears, smacks down reporters and threatens "dropkicks." Her enforcer, meanwhile, has a Pomeranian named Clio and loves David Sedaris and peach cobbler ice cream. More » -
#flackery
It's Spy vs. Spy as Microsoft Mounts Whisper Campaign Against Google
It's one thing for little nonprofit groups like Consumer Watchdog to hound Google for how it handles privacy and competitors. Much trickier for the company: A large corporation like Microsoft, can afford to whisper in reporters' ears, individually. More » -
#publicrelations
Sanford Was Pushed Into Confession
It turns out Mark Sanford's full confession and apology today wasn't as heartfelt as it seemed: The South Carolina governor had just been informed The State newspaper would publish his mistress emails, its reporter tells us. More » -
#publicrelations
Apple's Frozen Board Needs a Reboot
A hospital officially confirmed Steve Jobs received a liver transplant there, and did so with Jobs' permission. Meaning everyone is talking about the Apple CEO's sickness, except Apple. The pressure on the company's paralyzed directors is, justifiably, mounting. More » -
#flackery
'It's Hot in Iran' Is Latest Tech PR Gimmick
If the Iran protests put Twitter at the top of America's diplomatic agenda, just imagine what they could do for your company! Play your cards right, you might be able to exploit the situation as well as, say, Fring. More » -
#schwag
Free Hot Wings at Pro-Right Wing Violence Press Conference!
This is how you do press relations: journalists who attend right-wing nut Randall Terry's upcoming "George Tiller's murder is great news for the pro-life movement" press conference will get free beer and wings! More » -
#whatwouldjobsdo
Steve Jobs or Not, Apple Has the Reality Distortion Dept. Covered
There are any number of ways Steve Jobs could have made an appearance at Apple's developer's conference today. He didn't. Yet the company still built heavy buzz for what could have very easily turned out as a lackluster product refresh. More » -
#memos
Yahoo's New Top Flack: Cuddly and Awake
Yahoo's PR operation has been a disaster of late. Its former top flack maybe leaked an ex-employee's nasty performance evaluation; another was caught sleeping during a shareholder's meeting. So Yahoo spread word: its new guy is nice and conscious! More »
