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Small Screen
‘Tune In To Find Out What 2 Vaginas Looks Like!’
4:00AM Hamilton Nolan | PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgement of a sober judge. You can’t just wildly issue press releases like, “Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!” Or can you? More »
Online
Facebook’s New Flack: Pretty But Dumb?
4:06AM Ryan Tate | Facebook has named Andrew Noyes- one of the 50 prettiest people in DC- as its public policy communications manager. But the Congress Daily-reporter-turned-flack is already muddling Facebook’s message: More »
Online
Steve Jobs Deceives Again, Says Google Evidence
4:41AM Ryan Tate | Steve Jobs and Apple famously dissembled about the CEO’s health, until Jobs took a six-month medical leave. And what did Jobs do on his return? Issued a controversial statement about Google that the search company has now flatly contradicted. More »
Online
BusinessWeek : Wasserstein Out, Layoffs Coming
3:56AM Hamilton Nolan | In your revenue-generating Tuesday media column: the BusinessWeek bidding draws to a close, Americans would pay only a pittance for newspaper websites, Peter Shankman’s getting rich somehow, and the WaPo is determined not to write about dwarves. More »
People
Photo Evidence Steve Jobs Misled The New York Times
4:59AM Ryan Tate | It’s going to take more than six months medical leave to reform Steve Jobs. On his very first day back before the media, the Apple CEO apparently told a whopper to the New York Times. More »
Online
Current Yahoo CEO Isn’t ‘Stupid’ Like Certain Other Yahoo CEOs
2:48AM Ryan Tate | Carol Bartz’s CNBC appearance today was great PR—sharp and personable instead of defensive and sweary—but couldn’t be good for morale back at the office. The Yahoo CEO kept talking about Yahoo f–kups. More »
Online
Today’s The Day For Tech Companies To Issue Hushed Apologies
1:47AM Ryan Tate | The best time to say “sorry” to your customers is when no one else will hear you say it. That seems to be the thinking at Google, Amazon and AT&T, which are all ready to grovel to you, today. More »
Online
The Scariest Boss In Redmond
2:42AM Ryan Tate | Chairman Bill Gates famously cursed out Microsoft programmers. CEO Steve Ballmer screams and throws chairs. But online chief Qi Lu is as subtle as he is lethal, a corporate terminator who will hunt Google endlessly until it is dead. More »
People
Star Shamelessly Hyping Its Reporter’s Fling With Jon Gosselin
1:12PM the cajun boy | Today’s shameless press release of the day: Star Magazine issued a statement tonight touting the fact that one of their reporters, Kate Major, is getting boned by douche-y octodad Jon Gosselin. Yeah. More »
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