Like ATMs, cell phones and the Blackberry, it’s hard to imagine life without the hot news celebrity gossip site. Right now they are camped out with two live feeds in front of the courthouse waiting for Britney to arrive. Yesterday they caught Britney on a shopping outing with her new highly questionable … and still married [...]
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Posted in Blog news, Edelman, Media, News, PR Agency, PR Blog Practices, PR Practices, PR Week in Review, Paris/Britney/Lindsay, Politics, social media on Jul 29th, 2007 No Comments »
The big news this week was that Hillary Clinton displayed a hint of cleavage on the Senate floor. This elicited a major story in the Washington Post and reaction from news organizations, bloggers and candidates. Supposedly, the sight of cleavage sent Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter to gasping fits and required respirators to be brought [...]
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It’s been whirlwind week for Paris Hilton, and the rest of us who breathe the air that surrounds her - that air can carry on the jet stream from the Hollywood Hills to Manhattan Valley. She was released from prison, got to eat Taco Bell, went corporate and bland for Larry King, and she’s on the cover of [...]
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TMZ.Com is reporting that Lindsay Lohan was allegedly coked up and legally drunk when she crashed her car in Beverly Hills on Memorial Day weekend. The Police could present the case to the D.A. in the next few days. Lindsay recently re-upped after an initial stay in rehab. More than 15,000 have weighed in so [...]
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A defining moment in American culture passed like a comet through the videosphere last night as Paris Hilton patiently answered probing questions from the CNN bologna salesman Larry King. What can you say about Paris? Poised, repetent, she rehearsed her lines well. I believed her. Did Mike Sitrick media train her?
Sing glory halellujah, Paris will be burned in our [...]
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New York Times serious liberal readers absolutely freaked when the Gray Old Lady finally, finally got wise and put Paris in the lead story Online with videos, big, vivid photos, a blog, and constantly-updated reports from the post-confinement front. The comments on the Times blog were united in horror, with variations of: my god there is war and disease, discord, poverty and [...]
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Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, she’s free at last. A smiling, happy Paris Hilton was released this morning into a swarm of crazed photographers who chronicled every gesture in a frenzied flash of popping lights. It was a fitting end to a tortuous ordeal for our modern day St. Joan, the nation, and [...]
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