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Reality star and red-carpet opportunist Spencer Pratt recalls growing up in Los Angeles and watching Russell Crowe during 2000's Gladiator premiere. "I watched him go through several of his Australian beers on the carpet," Pratt recalls. "The media were all around him, it was just a different kind of media. They let people get away with more because the celebrities had more power. Now some paparazzo who has to pay his rent doesn't care what Russell Crowe or his agent thinks of him. He's taking that picture and selling it." And today, media outlets would...
...like so many aspects of modern life, the red carpet industry away from Oscar Sunday is struggling to find its niche in a changing world marked by media fragmentation and oversaturation. Once an iconic symbol, the carpet has lost several shades of its crimson hue in a town that now sees about four red-carpet events a night. "It used to be a rare thing and people used to get excited about the red carpet, but now the mystique is gone," says Hollywood publicist Ben Russo, of EMC/Bowery, a player on the Hollywood party scene. "It's way too oversaturated...
Depending on how you look at it, celebrities either used to be treated with more respect and distance by the media, or their pr people held the then smaller media pool more accountable for their coverage. Either way, the carpet was a nicer place as little as four years ago. But in the days of paparazzi and entertainment blogger overrun, the red carpet provides less and less shelter. (See the top 10 Oscar nomination snubs...
...time when newspapers are slashing their staffs and squeezing out education coverage, it is more difficult for colleges to communicate their relevance and messages to the public.” This trend is worrisome, partly because journalists serve the community when they publicize breakthroughs happening at universities. Without such media coverage, it would be difficult to draw attention to new research developments, musical compositions, films, and philosophies that appear in abundance at higher education institutions. While colleges and universities can publicize their own findings, their press releases may suffer from bias. Newspapers provide a more objective viewpoint while also synthesizing...
...words that are a problem—his actions are too. In 2007, he accepted an invitation to speak at the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. It apparently didn’t bother him that MSU-YAF had been widely covered in the media for a series of nasty stunts—attempting to stage a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,” holding a “Koran Desecration” competition, and posting “Gays Spread AIDS” fliers across campus. He also didn?...