As the curtain is drawn on the Tory Party love fest this link popped into my inbox yesterday. It’s a cautionary tale for all aspiring would be political spin meisters. Take five minutes to read the article it does proves that all publicity is not necessarily good publicity news.yahoo.com
Thrills, spills, reviews, readings and parties: it’s been 60 days since The Fame Formula came out and it’s been a rollercoaster ride. And, with Festival season upon us, there’s much more to come. In the brief pause as the rollercoaster climbs up another slope, before I rush on down into the Festival season, it’s time…
Search for a slogan. Oxfam is asking the public to write four memorable lines to be displayed on digital billboards around London. But how hard can it be to bash out a catchy, punchy, effective slogan? Ravi Somaiya: The Guardian, Monday September 29 2008 How difficult is it to write an advertising slogan? Oxfam will…
I’ve just read a piece on SpinWatch on the recent spat between lobbyists at Labour Party Conference: http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/5160/29/ . Its will worth a look.
A busy day yesterday, starting off at the Groucho Club at eight in the morning. I was taking part in the Editorial Intelligence/HarperCollins panel. The discussion was: Does the Media Break More Celebrities than it Makes? I was joined by Clarence Mitchell, who represented the McCann family throughout their tribulations; Rachel Johnson, who writes for…
I literally couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Les Ross of BBC Radio Midlands interviewing (if that’s what you could call it) the writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli. It was far more akin to an Alan Partridge sketch than a BBC radio interview. Les Ross began with an inane question about whether Hardeep…
Thanks to http://www.radiobarking.com/ for turning me on to some rather good magazines Girls and Corpses? “Well, if you’re like me –explains the author, writer Robert Steven “Corpsy” Rhine– you like two things: beautiful girls and rotting corpses. So, I thought, why not bring these two great tastes together in one magazine?” Ahem!? http://www.oddee.com/item_96476.aspx
Twitter takes flight Twitter made global headlines when James Buck, a graduate journalist, was arrested in Egypt for taking photographs of an anti-government protest earlier this year. On his way to the police station, Buck used his mobile to send the message “arrested” to 48 followers on Twitter, which ignited a worldwide campaign to get…
“I want you to get out in the real world and marry a rich man,” Joan Rivers told Big Brother contestant Emilia Arata earlier this year, when she took part in the show’s Celebrity Hijack. “If you’re smart, get a man with a heart condition, walk behind him, go ‘boo!’ and you’ll be set for…
I don’t believe it, Sarah Palin is on Twitter http://twitter.com/Sarah_Palin Frankly I am more interested in the fake Palin http://twitter.com/FakeSarahPalin