Word: pr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vice president of business development at Fox, declined to comment, saying, “As much as I’d like to help your cause, I can’t. We’ve been instructed not to talk to the media from the Fox PR folks.”Rumors of a joint strike between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East and West (officially separate organizations that have agreed to negotiate together) took hold in early October. Anticipating the end of their contract at the beginning of November, the guilds agreed to vote on the strike. Nine...
...here's the irony: in a way, FEMA had responded as it had trained to respond. Since 2000, the nation has held four full-scale exercises to simulate a major terrorist attack. Each time, the "mock media" is played by fake reporters - paid PR people, to be specific - just like in the fake FEMA press conference last week...
...Since 2003, Ogilvy PR, an international firm which also works for Disney and Slim-Fast, has been paid by the government to hold fake press conferences and broadcast live to a Virtual News Network (VNN), a closed-circuit satellite TV network modeled after CNN. Only people involved in the exercise can watch VNN or access its web site. The real media are only allowed to watch from afar...
...Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 of Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world—a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...
...handlers, PR agents and momanagers intent on horning in on their daughters’ careers (yet also sabotaging them by choosing, while their daughters are in a coked-out haze, films for them such as “I Know Who Killed Me,” a movie in which said daughter experiences twin stigmata), true personal style is hard to come by. Sadly, this is not an original age, and the famous women of today are merely the puppets of more fashionable anorexics, who in turn send out correctly-dressed clones to Us Magazine parties as their life work...