Word: junketing
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...says Sean Penn, who happens to be in the hotel for a press junket...
...Council is a group intended to foster interaction between student government between Ivy League schools. Unfortunately, its annual conference amounts to little more than an expensive junket for representatives. The conference has resulted in few tangible benefits. The most recent idea attributed to the Ivy Council, the "Census 2000" initiative of Fentrice D. Driskell '01, flopped after lackluster student participation...
...because we in the media have played catch-up with a movie most of us ignored in the beginning. Kirsten Dunst appeared on "The Tonight Show" early in the film's run. Other members of the cast scored spots on MTV. Entertainment shows recycled footage from a bouncy press junket that had been staged prior to opening weekend at UCLA with legions of real cheerleaders. Also, of course, the cheerleading movie got lucky. Like all monstrously profitable films, it arrived quite by accident at a time when audiences were in the mood to see it. You go, girls...
Perhaps it was one too many screenings at last month's TV critics' junket in California, but TIME television writer James Poniewozik decided to eschew TV network coverage of the Republican National Convention in favor of the Internet. Attracted by its wacky name and its promise of 360-degree manipulatable cameras and self-serve audio feeds, he chose Pseudo.com as his web provider of choice. Here's a diary...
...defeated himself. In the memorable words of the national Republican Party chairman, the party was willing to "stuff money into every orifice" to capitalize on the weakness of an incumbent already hemorrhaging from self-inflicted wounds, like overdrafts at the House Bank and jet skiing in Barbados on a junket filmed...