The French president’s PR team brought the Sarko & Carla show already perfected in their home country to London this week with similarly successful results The UK national press dedicate a third day of considerable space to the state visit to Britain by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, aided and abetted by his able uber-Frau.
Becks may have virtually bared all for Armani, but the Special One has played a cannier PR game in the past few days. This year ends with another spectacular David Beckham publicity stunt. Not content with the three ring circus of his move to Los Angeles to sell soccer to the Americans, why not tie…
Whatever we are now being led to believe or not to believe about the McCanns, one thing is sure – the level of success achieved by their PR adviser, Justine McGuinness, is now being analysed from a new perspective. Her clients have to face a cruel new reality as recent events have begun to turn…
The potential presence of Camilla at the forthcoming 10-year memorial service for Princess Diana dominated the media for a number of days. Was it a PR disaster or just a hapless attempt to further assimilate the Duchess of Cornwall into the hearts and souls of British royalists? http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007
What an extraordinary week. Outside it’s pissing down – and it’s also raining PR masterstrokes that would find their way into any publicity hall of fame.Frankly it was not a good start, as yet another lacklustre PR survey was trundled out on behalf of a faceless insurance company. Yawn – one in five of us…
Michael Parkinson’s golden age of genuine celebrity is, alas, long gone, replaced for good by an unhealthy obsession with talentless and transient D-listers Mark Borkowski Thursday July 5, 2007 MediaGuardian.co.uk http://media.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,,2119155,00.html
Channel 4’s decision to air images of Princess Diana’s fatal crash is just the latest in a long history of courting controversy by Mark Borkowski It has been bubbling for weeks like a witches’ brew, intoxicating the media and public alike: “Princess Diana – not another bloody documentary.” The storm finally breaks tonight with the…
Cannes has sometimes been seen as a vehicle to gain publicity for movies that aren’t quite finished, and Cannes goers have witnessed some doozy stunts in the past. This year, Jerry Seinfeld reigned as the king of all stuntsters when he went to the top of the Carlton Hotel, dressed as a bee, to promote…
To queue or not to queue, that is the question. Recently, fashion and retail publicity, with Madonna, Kate Moss and now Lily Allen turning their hand to clothes designing, has demonstrated a real lack of imagination when launching new season’s collections. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/05/celebrity_fashion_designers_ju.html
At the height of Vietnam, pretty much all a war correspondent in search of a story had to do was hop on a chopper, land in the middle of the war zone and find a story to file – and they were usually pretty quick in coming. Access was free and easy and the relationship…