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    Wanna Have Sex in Front of a Reporter? [Working 'with' The Press]

    Posted: September 14th, 2008, 9:41am CDT by Jasper Reardon
    Tags:  working with the press  

    If you've ever had the overwhelming desire to get busy in front of a "professional journalist," now is your chance.

    Seen recently on Craigslist, a heartfelt entreaty:

    "Sigh. I knew I should have stayed in advertising.

    So really, I was assigned a story for a (non-smut) mag to watch and rate two people having sex. None of my friends will do it—and I don't think I'd want to see that anyway—so here I am, trolling Craigslist's casual encounters with the hopes of finding a normal, heterosexual couple who would be willing to get it on in front of me.

    The couple will be completely anonymous in the story (unless they WANT to be ID'd/photographed), and I will not be participating nor doing this to get my rocks off. After all, I am a professional journalist...who isn't paid nearly enough.

    Ideally, you and your partner will be somewhat new to boffing each other and not total exhibitionists, although at this point, I'll take what I can get. Also, I'm looking to set this up for Monday or Tuesday night, if possible. And I WILL expect to meet somewhere in public first, so I can rule out whether you're the kind of people who might want to chain me up in your rape room and anally violate me with my tape recorder. (Please don't be.)

    So wanna screw in front of a reporter? Holler."

    This scribe needs your help people! Get naked and make news. Likely, this is for either a "Talk of the Town" or a Time Out sex column. What do you think? Any guesses? More importantly, who's in?

    [Craigslist]


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    Palin Buttering Up Reporter, McCain Style [Working 'with' The Press]

    Posted: September 9th, 2008, 8:48am CDT by Ryan Tate
    Tags:  working with the press  

    82711476After his comparatively disastrous speech at the Republican National Convention, it wouldn't seem John McCain could teach Sarah Palin much about public relations. But the Republican presidential nominee appears to have imparted an important lesson in one-on-one media manipulation: Sometimes the best response to a skeptical reporter is to draw him in as closely as possible. Politico said Palin will meet with ABC News' Charlie Gibson not only on Sunday, as originally reported, but in multiple interviews Thursday and Friday, as well, including at the prospective vice president's home in Wasilla, Alaska. Much as McCain used to score points with campaign reporters with seemingly chummy off-the-record chats, Palin no doubt hopes to soften Gibson up with a tour of her home state. Gibson, meanwhile, is supposedly racing to become the sort of interviewer who needs softening up:

    ABC is war-gaming tough questions – not gotchas [no??], but some requiring policy knowledge — with the thoroughness that a network prepares for a debate.

    ...Officials wouldn’t say how the ABC anchor was chosen. “There were lots of tremendous and credible and fair journalists to choose from,” an aide said. “Somebody had to go first.”

    After the interview, Palin will supposedly move on to actually speaking with the rest of the press and hoping everyone ignores the revelation she billed her state government for sleeping in her own home, or whatever would-be scandal is sliding right off of her at the time. But as the Observer writes, the lengthy interview will actually just take much of the pressure off the McCain campaign to make Palin available to the media, assuming the candidate doesn't screw up.

    [Politico]


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    These Are The Nicest Celebrities In Town! [Press Whoring]

    Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 12:28pm CDT by Richard
    Tags:  press whoring  

    That would be comedienne Rosie O'Donnell, wig-wearer Donald Trump, crazy actress Julianne Moore, crazy actor Alec Baldwin, New York thoroughbred Sarah Jessica Parker, and celebrated thespian Patricia Clarkson. And they're all nice! Or so says Village Voice darling and all around geigh dude Michael Musto, based on his experiences with how they treat the press. Ahh, they're nice to the press huh?

    They always remember names and stuff? Well that's easy enough to fake. They just have their assistants look up whatever journalist they're meeting with that day, print out a picture, and make a little flashcard. Simple as that! Of course these people are friendly to the press. They're at work. Though I'm sure myriad waiters and Starbucks baristas and parking valets and hotel concierges would agree with the choices, right? Right?


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    Everyone Knew Palin Gal Pregnant Except Sad McCain [Working 'with' The Press]

    Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:24am CDT by Ryan Tate
    Tags:  working with the press  

    82620043John McCain was likely clueless his running mate Sarah Palin had an underage daughter with a love child — or at least that's what the Times is implying this morning. Meanwhile it looks like everyone from Time magazine to the National Enquirer to the entire population of Wasilla, Alaska was hip to the scandalous pregnancy. How could McCain have been left in the dark? It seems the presumptive Republican presidential nominee settled on Palin at the last minute, after figuring out that social conservatives might use the convention to nuke his top two choices, pseudo-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, both pro-choice. Republican operatives vetted Palin for four or five days, one of them told the Times anonymously, but it sounds like even that's a reach:

    "They didn't speak to anyone in the Legislature, they didn't speak to anyone in the business community," said Lyda Green, the State Senate president, who lives in Wasilla, where Palin served as mayor.

    Representative Gail Phillips, a Republican and former speaker of the State House, said the widespread surprise in Alaska when Palin was named to the ticket made her wonder how intensively the McCain campaign had vetted her.

    "I started calling around and asking, and I have not been able to find one person that was called," Phillips said. "I called 30 to 40 people...

    The current mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller, said she had not heard of any efforts to look into Palin's background. And Randy Ruedrich, the state Republican Party chairman, said he knew nothing of any vetting that had been conducted.

    Also, McCain's people won't say specifically when or how they found out about the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter. Maybe because they didn't really know in advance!

    They probably should have just called any random house in Wasilla, population 10,000, because the love child was an "open secret" there, according to the Daily News.

    The National Enquirer was chasing the story hard 36 hours before McCain addressed the situation, Radar reported.

    And maybe Time knew, too, because just last week, before Palin was officially nominated but while she was being vetted, it asked McCain this question:

    ...And the question I got in the e-mail was: What does John McCain think of premarital sex? What do you think about that? What are your thoughts?

    I don't have any response to that type of question. I'm running for President of the United States; write what you want.

    McCain was smart enough not to fall into that little trap.

    He was also lucky enough that the Palin news broke right when everyone was distracted by Hurricane Gustav in Florida and early enough in his presidential campaign that it's likely to be a non-issue by the time of the election. Some observers think it might even end up being a net positive for McCain.

    Meanwhile, the hugely unpopular president's scheduled speech at McCain's coronation has been swept aside by the hurricane. And the candidate gets to go down to Louisiana and maybe make people forget about the big birthday party he had the last time New Orleans was hit by a hurricane.

    Now all McCain has to do is convince everyone Palin isn't a secessionist and make them forget she helped start a group hilariously titled "Ted Stevens Excellence In Public Service Inc.," after the Alaskan who became "the first sitting U.S. senator to face criminal charges in 15 years." Should be a fun convention!


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    Obama Speech Media Hierarchy: Losers And Winners [Working 'with' The Press]

    Posted: August 28th, 2008, 9:12pm CDT by Ryan Tate
    Tags:  working with the press  

    L Seating 0Not all reporters are created equal at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama is about to close out the Democratic National Convention. John Koblin at the Observer printed a seating chart (left) and gave a rundown on the winners and losers. It looks like the Obama campaign continues to snub the New Yorker for its controversial parody cover, sitting the magazine's correspondents in worse seats than Jezebel/Glamour (team Megan!), the Nation and the New Republic. More delightfully, the campaign totally dissed those conssumate insiders at Vanity Fair, "which is stuck in the back row in Section J" behind basically everyone except the Gotham tabloids. Ha ha, I guess the entire free world is not actually obsessed with getting into the Waverly or your damned Oscar party, Graydon Carter! After the jump, early chatter among reporters, plus a list of seating winners.

    Winners:

    • The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post — they get 50-yard-line seats. It's noteworthy the Journal wasn't made to pay for its rabidly right-wing editorial page. Likely explanation: Murdoch is an "Obahh-mer" booster these days.
    • Megan Carpentier, at the convention on behalf of Glamour and Jezebel (and formerly of Wonkette!). "One very pleased writer, Carpentier... couldn't be happier to be a few seats closer to the front of the podium than Mother Jones' David Corn and Portfolio's Matt Cooper, both writers sitting to her left... 'This is amazing! It's so completely random."
    • Politico. Parity with Time and ahead of the New Yorker and New Republic is not at all bad for an 18-month-old publication.

    From the press box, via Jezebel's liveblog:

    9:00 ET: Michael McDonald is killing the crowd, and not in a good way. Most common journalist question: "Who the hell is that guy?" The New York Times David Carr comes in with the assist from down the row: Doobie brothers.

    [Observer]


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    The Case Of The Scheming Flack Girlfriend [Working 'with' The Press]

    Posted: August 21st, 2008, 10:03pm CDT by Ryan Tate
    Tags:  working with the press  

    Img 0313Former LA Times editor Andres Martinez's new lawsuit is a sad story of betrayal that should convince any journalist never to date a publicist, unless she can somehow find one who is not crafty and constantly scheming to leverage the relationship. Martinez left his job editing the editorial page amid scandal. He tried to have film producer Brian Grazer guest edit his section even though his girlfriend Kelly Mullens was flacking for Grazer. Dirty and stupid and unethical, right? Well, hold one one second: Martinez says in his suit that Mullens promised him she had recused herself from working with Grazer, a client of her firm, at least on this one project. This turned out to be an awful awful lie. Writes Matt Belloni at the Hollywood Reporter:

    ...when the date of the issue drew near, a draft press release was circulated with Mullens' name on it and Martinez later discovered that Mullens had "concealed her presence from Plaintiff during a conference discussing the section." ...Martinez... now says Mullens caused him irreparable harm by "having his professional reputation damaged, by his constructive discharge from The Los Angeles Times, and by the emotional distress and suffering that has resulted."

    Martinez can't pin everything on the flack, however, since he should have known from the start that pimping a client of his girlfriend was going to get him in trouble, no matter how hard (and futilely) he tried to ethically cleanse the situation by bringing in other editors and making the girlfriend promise not to work on this one particular project. In other words, he was asking for it.

    Mullens' attorneys, meanwhile, claim Martinez's suit is retaliation for a restraining order filed for "unstable behavior, threats, and harassment." In other words, they're not denying anything, just changing the subject. Total flack behavior, right there.

    [Hollywood Reporter]

    (Image via New York Social Diary)


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    Segues Of A Lifetime [Press Releases]

    Posted: August 1st, 2008, 1:35pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan
    Tags:  press releases  

    "Batman would be nothing more than Bruce Wayne without the cool gadgets he uses to capture Gotham City's seediest characters. Why then are today's heroes, among them designers of rich online interactive media (videos, animations, etc.), not yet using cool tools to capture approvals on videos and animation?" You think you can beat that press release transition from a pop culture item of the moment to a pitch for an unrelated mundane service? Try in the comments, then! I beg you. [via Ad Age]


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