PR/Media Week-in-Review, 07/27/08
July 27, 2008 by Mark Rose
Filed under News, PR Week in Review, Video
Jew on Jew Violence
My first day in grade school at P.S. 244 (correction: it’s P.S. 277) in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, a tall Irish thug named Patrick Selkirk introduced himself by sharing his favorite joke: “What’s the fastest means of transportation?” asked Patrick. I shrugged. “Throw a penny and hop on a Jews back,” he said and Patrick and his gang of thugs cracked up and boasted of making raids into ‘Jewland’ (neighboring Marine Park) to beat up on kids like me. Patrick and his boys made good on those boasts. Enticing and evading the Irish gangs was a favorite activity back then until we developed our own brand of thuggery, albeit much more subtle.
PR/Media Week in Review, 07-06-2008
July 6, 2008 by Mark Rose
Filed under News, PR Practices
Liz Manages Madonna & A-Rod, the new Marilyn & Joltin’ Joe?
Liz Rosenberg has been Madonna’s publicist since the early 80’s. Rosenberg is often quoted in the media, these days denying that Madonna and Guy Ritchie are divorcing or that Madonna and Alex “A-Rod” Rodriquez, star third baseman for the New York Yankees, are an “item,” a particulary dicey assignment since both Madonna and A-Rod are married.
A-Rod’s wife, the “long suffering” Cynthia Rodriquez, as the Daily News refers to her, is in Paris with platonic pal Lenny Kravitz. She is supposedly recovering from her husband’s latest indiscretions. A-Rod is under Madonna’s Kabbalah spell, claims Cynthia, and he has become intolerable. Media spec on the divorce settlement hovers around $150 million. A-Rod was tabloid fodder a couple of years ago when he was spotted in several cities with a Vegas stripper, and he reportedly has a propensity for $5,000 lap dances.
