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• Sadder Emails Dept.: Philippe Reines, Hottie, is Sorry

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: Email, Fishbowldc, Flacks, Media, Sadder Emails Dept

  Yesterday, this vaguely unsettling contest campaign email from one Philippe Reines, Clinton flack and nominee for hottest media type in Washington (PR division), entertained everyone on the whole...

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• Sad Emails Dept.: DC Media Types Hot for Embarrassing Self-Promotion

  Published: July 25, 2007, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Fishbowldc, Flacks, Hillary Clinton, Journalists, Media, Sad Emails Dept

  As FishbowlDC continues its “Hottest Media People” contest, the campaigning and politicking grow more desperate. Yesterday we mocked their appearance, but today we’ll mock them...

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• Flacks: Yahoo's dwindling PR strategy

  Published: October 24, 2007, 1:41 am

  Tags: Exclusive, Flacks, Jill Nash, Joanna Stevens, Top, Yahoo

  Is it any wonder why Yahoo's image is so unpolished? The ranks of top PR people available to buff it have been rapidly shrinking. And with CEO Jerry Yang all but hiding in a cave, there's been little for the survivors to do. The latest departures: Nissa Anklesaria to BabyCenter, and Joanna Stevens, to parts unknown. That Stevens, an eight-year

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• You Need Experience to Write for the Washington Post? Nah

  Published: October 31, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Michael Fletcher, Hacks N Flacks, Media, Economy

  Speaking of our vaunted media and its penchant for incompetent columnists, Pennsylvania blogger and Bush bete noir eRobin of Fact-esque caught the WaPo hiring a new economics columnist who doesn’t know anything about economics. How can I be sure that you’re qualified to write for the pro-war WaPo?   Because

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• Wired editor gives free PR to 329 undeserving flacks [Chris Anderson]

  Published: November 1, 2007, 8:16 pm

  Tags: Chris Anderson, Flacks, Great Moments In Journalism, Spam

  to retaliate by exposing flacks' e-mails to real spammers. Today Anderson dissected the reactions, but he skipped one consequence of his action: Publicity-hungry bottom-feeders now have a list of (hopefully) low-rent flacks. (Photo by Aaron Tang/designverb)

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• PR Firms: Your Source For Authenticity [Know Your Flacks]

  Published: February 12, 2008, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Armstrong Williams, Ketchum, Know Your Flacks, Nick Ragone, Public Relations

  Nick Ragone, an executive at the huge PR agency Ketchum [Disclosure: and an occasional source of mine at PRWeek], has a new book out about Presidents, for some reason. And he's putting those PR...

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• It's a Wonderful Lie [Politics]

  Published: June 16, 2008, 5:34 pm

  Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Flacks, Lies, Media

  Obama's newest flack is former journalist! It's cute when journos move to politicians' press offices and pretend they'll still give a shit about The People's Right To Know. "The thing that really...

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• The Creepy Brit Who's Destroying The Honorable Craft Of Celebrity Journalism [Rob Shuter]

  Published: June 18, 2008, 11:31 am

  Tags: Rob Shuter, Celebrities, Defamer, Flackery, Flacks, In Touch, Jessica Simpson, Jezebel, Liars, Magazines, Media, Monsters, Paris Hilton, Public Relations, Publicists, Scandals, Top

  OK! is the celebrity magazine that is the most willingly manipulated by celebrity flacks, which is really saying something. So it's perfectly appropriate that the magazine just promoted sleazy former...

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• Way Smart Ex-PR Guru To Make Crazy Movie Version Of Crazy Documentary [Dan Klores]

  Published: June 27, 2008, 10:22 am

  Tags: Dan Klores, Crazy Things, Defamer, Dkc, Documentaries, Entertainment, Film, Flacks, Hbo, Hollywood, Movies, Public Relations

  Dan Klores is the smartest man in PR. That's because he's not in PR any more. He founded his eponymous agency, which made (and still makes) him a ton of money, and then decided, "You know what? Fuck...

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