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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 »
Small Screen
WWF Actually Did Know About 9/11 Ad
1:46AM Hamilton Nolan | Just to make sure everyone is extremely clear on who did what here: the World Wildlife Fund is not just an innocent victim of a bad rogue ad agency in this whole 9/11 ad fiasco. More »
Small Screen
The Backlash Against Laura Ling And Euna Lee Begins
12:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee automatically became heroes after being snatched up by the North Korean government, because that’s just how things work in America. But some activists overseas think the women hurt more than they helped. More »
Print
Conde Nast Misses Good PR Opportunity
5:20AM Hamilton Nolan | Conde Nast’s most painful recent cost cut: No more Fiji Water. Now Mother Jones reports: Fiji Water is evil. If Conde had just waited one week, they could have gotten rid of it because it’s evil. Not because they’re poor.
Flotsam & Jetsam
‘PR Pros Ethical Thinkers’, Lie PR Pros
12:35AM Hamilton Nolan | A new study from a PR industry-connected research group has definitively proven that PR people are nearly as moral as dental students. Which has to be pretty good, no? More »
People
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Is Not Dead, Says Best Press Release Ever
3:45AM Foster Kamer | Enormous-mouthed lead singer of seminal Boston rock band Aerosmith (sorry, Boston, the band), Steven Tyler, fell off a stage while performing a crazy twirly dance. His other daughter, Mia, released a PR statement to TMZ last night. This is classic. More »
People
Look Who’s Using The N. Korean Rescue To Rehabilitate His Image
5:51AM John Cook | Bill Clinton gallantly flew to North Korea to rescue Current TV’s Euna Lee and Laura Ling from Kim Jong-Il’s clutches. Who paid for the flight? Clinton’s extremely fertile wingman, Steve Bing, the Associated Press reports. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
China Learns The Yin And Yang Of PR
1:26AM Hamilton Nolan | China’s having some wee riots by a few troublesome dead-ender Uighurs. Hundreds are dead. The media always wants to “cover” things like this. China has a new media management strategy, though: savvy PR! The Uighurs have a counter-strategy: breaking shit. More »
People
Shameless Press Release Of The Day: ‘Rihanna’s Court Style’
4:34PM the cajun boy | By now you may have heard Chris Brown copped a plea Monday in a Los Angeles court. Maybe then you found yourself wondering, “Gee…I wonder what Rihanna wore to court today?” Well, Michele Marie PR wants everyone to know! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
