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Obama bounces, Hillary flattens.  Twists and turns in the Demo Presidential campaign got a little wilder this week with Bill Richardson, aka Wolfman Jack, the latest ‘friend’ to turn on Hillary Clinton. It’s almost like “March of the Demos” as one by one the big honchos - Kerry, Kennedy, Richardson - dive into the icy waters that bring the […]

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Journal on the move 
The Wall Street Journal is moving to midtown. Freeing Journal editorial staff the from the ghosts of the past, Rupert the Terrible is boldly going where the Bancroft’s dared not. Journal staffers will soon be under the News Corp. umbrella at company headquarters on 1221 6th Avenue (48th street), known as “the canyon.”
The Journal, which […]

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EPIPHANY OF THE YEAR - You Don’t Need to Blog
November 19, 2007 broke like any other morning with one big difference - the thought of blogging made me ill. I had plenty to say, just didn’t feel like saying it, at least in this forum. And so it was for more than a month, a […]

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Can YouTube elect the next U.S. President? That question is much more viable today than last week as Ron Paul, the fervent, iconoclastic Congressman from Texas with two first names, raised $4.3 million in one day largely based on an amateur video posted on YouTube. See thisnovember5th.com for the video and the story. Ron Paul’s YoutTube […]

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BorAss Reamed in Bronx 
The BorAss and A-Rod show was the top news this week, as greed and PR converge to take any joy left out of baseball. In this instance at least all baseball owners should collude to lock out A-Rod as a means of shutting down the BorAss hype and greed machine that is […]

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Yesterday I saw “Die Mommie Die,” a campy off-Broadway musical with a title we can certainly all relate to. About an hour into the show I thought of Amanda Chapel. After all, the lead is played by a man (Charles Busch) playing a woman (Angela) who secretly poisoned her sister and assumed her identity and […]

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Amanda won’t die. When do we cross to the other side?
Since there are no rules here, and I would break them if there were, I am hijacking the Week in Review from the apparently defunct Strumpette. It has been nearly a week since Amanda Chapel called it quits and set off fireworks from the blogerati, both […]

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Burson Digs Itself Deeper.
In the 80’s, 90’s and the earlier part of this century Burson-Marsteller had a stellar reputation. It was the gold standard, the McKinsey of PR. Burson execs were built of special stock, seemingly smarter, richer, working on cool, high-level stuff with big budgets. Burson was the perennial top-dog in billings, its […]

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You say you want a revolution.
The uprising in Burma-Myanmar reached a fevered pitch this week and reminded us of how important blogging can be. Citizen journalists on the ground reported on skirmishes and posted graphic pictures of death and bloodshed as photographers were cut down by gunfire and monks were killed, beaten, corralled and confined. […]

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“Don’t Tase Me Bro!” became the rallying cry of disenfranchised college students this week as one slightly unglued academic took the zap heard round the world at a John Kerry speaking event. YouTube videos of the tasing became the subject of news segments, T-shirts went on sale the next day, designer tasers were hot items […]

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