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modern and awkward
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 »
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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 » -
public relations
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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by homovegetarian: He doesn't desire to repair his marriage, but to appear as if he is repairing his marriage. That was five... 7 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: I understand that shareholders have a vested interest in the performance of the company, so the Apple board and management... 5 Responses | Other threads
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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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by Xenu Warrior God: Have the Iranian authorities tried blocking access to Gawker from Teheran? 7 Responses | Other threads
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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 »
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By PareeneComment by allyzay: guinness and chicken wings don't really go together very well if you are asking me. they're wanting to get something... 3 Responses | Other threads
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what would jobs do?
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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by tillman: apple reality distortion field is so strong that people were cheering very minor features for iPhone that should have been... 1 Responses | Other threads
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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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Nothing screams cutting-edge technology executive like "surfing the web." 1 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Julia Allison's Shill-erific Sea World Adventure
Julia Allison was paid in cash to blog about her trip Sea World, the "lifecasting" celebrity wannabe has belatedly disclosed. So how have the first few days of the trip gone? Allison, who announced her trip with five exclamation marks, seems belatedly conflicted. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Who is the lady in the middle in black and white? She's like the queen of the photo. 5 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Julia Allison Shills for Sea World (Updated)
Julia Allison sounds so excited: The professional "lifecaster" is headed for "an adventure" at Sea World. As it happens, she's also showing other bloggers how not to make money in a recession.
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By Ryan TateComment by Julia Allison: As I just told Ryan, this is a fairly standard press junket, and IZEA is paying me for my time... 44 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
Flacks Advise Feuding Times To Get Deeper Into Mud
The New York Times has, in recent months, started punching back at its critics, rather than maintaining the usual dignified silence. But with letters and memos, which, let's face it, are for wusses, right? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Bold E. Mort: I heard OK! is talking smack about Gawker. Just saying. more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Press Turns Obama News Conference into Bad Action Movie
The insular White House press corps is said obsessed with Beltway inside baseball. But it can also pander to the masses as well as any tabloid — or Hollywood studio. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Katcrystal: As a rule they need to start including Biden into more of these prime time press conferences. We need... 4 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Times' Comical 27-Part Question Confuses President
The president finally let a few of these "newspapers" ask questions at his big TV news conference, and what happens? The New York Times asks a laughable question, and is mocked. Newbs. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by unfriended: "...almost as painful as the laughter in the White House..." I think you've severely misrepresented what happened. Obama played it... 3 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Spook's Torture Lie Made Waterboarding Cool
A "former" CIA officer named John Kiriakou told ABC News that spies broke an al Qaeda terrorist in "30, 35 seconds," using waterboarding. The story spread everywhere. Of course it was a horrific lie. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sample032: Wouldn't that mean that waterboard might be closer to an annoyance than to torture? 4 Responses | Other threads
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books
Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
Christopher Buckley's family tell-all has already made him some enemies. Will people look more kindly on the writer's crusade to break the news of his father's suicide urge? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by son of spam: The man was incredible. Pissing out a car window is not an easy thing to do. 8 Responses | Other threads
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working 'with' the press
No Twittering at These Government Meetings
You can't Twitter meetings of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit directors any more, because someone recently threw red paint at one of the gatherings. That's fair and logical. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by LedburyLongshot: dude... the first amendment is well and truly screwed over? really? i mean... really? come on man... you guys are... 2 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Mayor Pissed That Disabled Reporter Can't Fix Electronics Glitch Faster
They say corporate dysfunction starts at the top, and we're starting to think the nasty culture at Bloomberg LLC is no exception. Look at how the company's founder humiliated a wheelchair-bound reporter today. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by shavethatsoulpatch: Well I'm glad he supports marriage equality - I didn't know this, as I don't live in NYC - but... 12 Responses | Other threads
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working 'with' the press
Mainstream Media Elbowed Aside At Obama Presser
The discontent among Beltway-prestigious news outlets is reportedly palpable: Barack Obama didn't call on the New York Times, Washington Post or Wall Street Journal tonight, but did call on a bunch of hippie freaks. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by reggattagirl: Dude, enough with the typos. I got enough to worry about. "Stars and Stripes - Kevin Baron - mumbled a probably-decent... 5 Responses | Other threads
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politics
White House Pal Slithers Around Anderson Cooper's Conspiracy Questions
Were Democratic attacks on Rush Limbaugh coordinated with the White House? Watch Paul Begala hilariously duck and dodge and dance around Anderson Cooper's many futile questions about the matter. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Ohcaptainmycaptain: Can anyone imagine a more hateful, child-rapist face than this hamwter-eyed partisan snake? 3 Responses | Other threads
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art
Artist Missing Gold Treasure Thanks To Scammer
Chris Burden, the controversial performance artist, has become a high-profile victim of Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford. Stanford never delivered the artist's precious, artistic pile of gold bars. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by krismry: Dear Chris, gold bars are the very dumbest way to buy gold. Even when or if you take delivery, you... 2 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Ryanair Lashes 'Idiot Bloggers'
After a Dublin blogger highlighted flaws on the RyanAir website, airline staff slammed the "pathetic life" of the "idiot and... liar" in the comments. Headquarters staff intervened — to sharpen the cruelty. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by unfriended: I know what I'm getting when I fly RyanAir: a $12 flight from London to Paris. So even if... 7 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
Jeremy Piven Cries, Escapes Punishment
Jeremy Piven convinced five other actors his mercury poisoning is real, deadlocking a union hearing and sparing Piven penalties for leaving Speed the Plow. How did he do it? Maybe with some crying.
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public relations
WSJ Reporter: Anna Wintour Wasn't Putting Me Down
Rachel Dodes, the Wall Street Journal reporter who Anna Wintour seemed to diss in a weekend interview, said she wasn't offended to be told "we had a little sequined thing that wouldn't come down to here on you [points to chest.]" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ihateyourescalade: It's beyond me how you can interpret Wintour's comment as a dis to the reporter, especially when Dodes isn't the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Wintour to Reporter: This Garment Would Never Fit You
In today's Anna Wintour image rehabilitation news, the Vogue editor is reportedly filmed at yet another charity ball and gives the WSJ an interview. But she called the reporter huge. Whoops!
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By Ryan TateComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: ...um ...isn't she saying the writer is too tall for the garmet, not too fat? and in fashion, tall is... 3 Responses | Other threads
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comedy
Black Lesbian Brings Change to White House Correspondents Dinner
Wanda Sykes will perform at this year's White House correspondents dinner, the first (we think) openly gay person to headline the 89-year-old event. Change. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by skahammer: You say "White House Correspondents' Dinner"...I take a moment to ritually acknowledge the coruscating genius of Stephen Colbert, circa 2006. 3 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
The Kiss-Up Guild For Fashion Bloggers
Yuli Ziv, an internet marketer, has for some reason decided to form a "guild" for fashion bloggers called Style Coalition. The idea is to be as toothless and sold-out as fashion magazines. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Michael J. Pratt: I am a co-founder of the above mentioned Style Coalition and the Fashion Week events it produces (InsideTheTents & the... 1 Responses | Other threads
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music
Grammys Scene Sparked By Fangirl Entertainment Weekly Reporter
Who was that in the Grammys press area, screaming out the biggest cheers of the night? Some kind of obsessive, barely-credentialed teenaged blogger? Hardly. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Calraigh: Yeah this makes her look like an eejit but I like 'er. She writes for Entertainment Weekly for the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Robert Gibbs Hates the Press, Just Like a Republican
Isn't it a hoot—an ironic hoot—that Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs has a combatative relationship with the press, even though as we all know the press are all liberals who worship Obama? This is what Gibbs said about the cable news, today: More »
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By PareeneComment by Truculent: I'm surprised the guy has already hit the angry/bitter phase. It should have taken at least a couple of months,... 3 Responses | Other threads
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media
New York Papers Ignored the DWI Bust of Democratic Bigwig
Did you know that financier Steven Rattner's wife Maureen White, the former national finance chair of the Democratic Party, had a hilarious drunk driving arrest last October? Nope, because no one reported on it! More »
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By PareeneComment by Not The Red Baron: Throgs Neck Bridge?! Where was this alleged offence, the World of Warcraft? 3 Responses | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Blago Declares Self the 'Anti-Nixon,' Promptly Acts Like Nixon
Like the Richard Nixon groupie he is, Rod Blagojevich quickly broke his promise to Rachel Maddow to become the "anti-Nixon." Instead he broke court rules and dodged questions, on national television. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SidAndFinancy: I'll just go ahead and say it: he's growing on me in the way I couldn't help but get a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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white house
Washington Post Loses It on Twitter
Here are some of Chris Cillizza's tweets from the White House press briefing, where he represents the Washington Post. What is wrong with him, and why won't he stop? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Trixie from Toronto: It's not the Washington press corps, it's journalism in general. This is what aging white men think journalists should now... 6 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
President's Press Honeymoon Over
It took all of two working days for the Obama Administration's relationship with the media to get testy. The president shouldn't seem so surprised. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Jim Topoleski: The guy was a ass, and Obama dealt with his gloriously. Having worked a newspaper, what the politico guy did... 6 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Will 60 Minutes Help Anna Wintour Keep Hold of Vogue?
We hear CBS' 60 Minutes is preparing a profile on Anna Wintour. Though takedowns are the news magazine's claim to fame, we're betting the Vogue editor will emerged puffed up. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by LilyBartleby: Okay. Here is some advice. Make up a NEW screen name/avatar and log in to Gawker. DON'T TELL ANYONE YOUR SCREEN NAME.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
The Rules For Interviewing Tom Cruise
Like many celebrities, Tom Cruise tries to control journalists. He hates talking about his heavy involvement Scientology, for example. But who knew he'd try to force his interviewers to like Valkyrie?
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By Ryan TateComment by Dagrolord: The article and accompanying photo of Senor Cruise brought me a shimmering epiphany. Tom Cruise exists to explain the necessity of... 6 Responses | Other threads
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nouriel roubini
Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
Nouriel Roubini has made it clear he'd rather be known for his prescient economic predictions than his playboy lifestyle. But his parties are catnip for the media who inflated his reputation. More »
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celebrity science
Tom Cruise Says 'That's It, No More' Scientology Evangelism
Scientology prince Tom Cruise is supposedly no longer speaking publicly about his membership in the cult, a far cry from the days he used new films as a chance to promote the "church." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Joe_Welcome: what evs. he's loopy, but then here's the background on the virgin of guadalupe, whose feast day was recently celebrated. [[During... 10 Responses | Other threads
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media handling
Obama's Winning Strategy: Ignore 'Politico'
Our new press secretary and our president-elect's campaign media strategy get the Times Magazine treatment this Sunday. There is, frankly, nothing all that revealing. But there are amusing anecdotes! More »
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By PareeneComment by notsofresh: The story says Gibbs is 37 years old. If that's how hard work and ambition age a man, I'll keep... 5 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Fox's Vindictive Flacks from Hell Hate Christmas
With this "holiday" card, Fox is again on the wrong side of the "War On Christmas" it's so worried about. And apparently this is supposed to totally make up for smearing all those reporters: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Xylo: Ruh-roh. Somebody's gonna get in trouble. 3 Responses | Other threads
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publicity stunts
Why Was It So Easy To Throw Something At the President?
President Bush shrugged off an Iraqi reporter's shoe attack (reaction video after the jump), but the incident raises an obvious question: Who'd imagine it would be so easy to lob things at the president? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by badasscat: The sad thing about this is that Bush apparently hasn't even considered why the guy did this. He lost... 12 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Media Obituaries Reduced To Twitter Length
It's very logical and very sad: Publication shut-downs and layoffs are coming so quickly they can only be effectively tracked at 140 characters or less, on Twitter. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by lionel-mandrake: Awkward truth, news "media" shouldn't be lumped under the overall "media" umbrella. News "media" is but a tiny part of... more » | Other threads
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