PR Advice

10 dumb things that smart communicators do

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The World Bank

Public Relations Disasters

Wolfowitz Resigns, Statements of Executive Directors and President Wolfowitz

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Idiot Pundits

Thank God: Crazy-ass bitch Melanie Morgan banned from PBS NewsHour

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Public Relations Agencies

The state of Georgia's PR biz is up for grabs

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Web Design News

Alaska's infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" looks for a more image-friendly nickname

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Public Relations Disasters

When your company's president is doing something called an "explaining tour," you've already got reason to be suspicious

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Web Design Inspiration

Bikini-babe streaker fights for streakers' rights at sporting events

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World Bank President

Employee Morale

The Staff Association expresses its impatience with the delay of Wolfowitz's resignation

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Attention Whores

After hibernating all winter, Tyra Banks steps out in her new bikini bod. I thought she was ok with how her body was before?

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eDrugSearch Blog

Bad Web Design

Tips for winning that job as a pharma sales rep

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Britney Spears dumps the wigs and sews in extensions to her one-inch hair. Give the hair a break and let it heal for God's sake!

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Facebook Tips

Sale of the General Lee was a hoax and now the Dukes of Hazzard icon is back on eBay

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Sharon Stone takes a hilarious tumble on the sidewalk

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Public Relations Disasters

Pet food industry unites in crisis: three key players discuss the pet-food recall and their roles in the crisis

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Marketing Campaigns

USA Networks kicks off new series 'Starter Wife' with interactive lifestyle campaign

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People Magazine

Celebrity Trainwrecks

Britney Spears thanks her fans for their support and credits them for helping her get through this difficult time

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Public Relations Disasters

After doping scandals of Landis and Ullrich, the sport of cyling is struggling to find sponsors

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Public Relations Disasters

Still dealing with a worldwide recall of products that reportedly cause eye infections, Bausch & Lomb has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus

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Good Ideas

Montgomery county in Maryland becomes the nation's first county to ban trans fats in restaurants and supermarkets

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Public Relations Disasters

Dell slapped with suit by NY Attorney General, who alleges company is "deceiving customers to increase sales"

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SEO Services

Shock jocks Opie and Anthony are suspended for crude sex comments made on XM satellite radio

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Public Relations Agencies

Father of the Social Media Release Todd Defren Discusses SMR's Progress

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SEO Services

Fox News is hedging its bets on new 24-hour business channel

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LA Weekly

Grammy, Baby!

Indie band gains following by attacking Bill O'Reilly

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Information Week

Public Relations News

Six Things Customers Hate About Cell Phone Service

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Information Week

Public Relations News

Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims

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2OLD 2PWN

Public Relations News

New Halo 3 Beta Videos

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World Bank President

Public Relations Disasters

Wolfowitz Deathwatch Continues: Paul Wolfowitz continues the role as the Generalissimo Franco of the World Bank

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WorldNetDaily

Heroes

Hazelton mayor who cracked down on illegal immigration gives "bipartisanship" a new name by winning both Republican AND Democrat primaries.

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PR Differently

Web Design Inspiration

Best sports headline ever?

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Social Disease Media

Technorati to Expand Beyond Blogs (Red Herring)

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Web Design Inspiration

Leave it to the Japanese to figure out how to put a bikini girl on a golf tee

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NBA.com

Web Design Inspiration

Dirk Nowitzki winning the MVP marks only the second time in NBA history that a white boy has won the award three years in a row

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Idiot Pundits

Was the university study documenting the fact that Bill O'Reilly is an a-hole biased?

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Content Marketing News

Dan Rather on appearing on a TV show called "Dirty Sexy Money": I'll be dead soon, what difference does it make?

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Star Wars Blogs

Photo Ops

Star Wars fan: I love my metal bikini

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Legalese

Aussie bikini car wash fined $20,000 for having too many bikini girls (five) per car

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USA Today

Public Relations Disasters

Congress deluged by complaints that airlines cancel flights that aren't full enough

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Brand Equity

Double branding trend dangerous: single brands are just stronger

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Fox News

Public Relations Disasters

Vitamin use linked to increased prostate cancer risk

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False Advertising

Shell accused of "greenwashing" for airing misleading adverts

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CBS News

Celebrity Trainwrecks

Anna Nicole diary revealed: she's just a sad person who's into rough sex and plastic surgery

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Public Relations Ideas

Prince Harry not allowed to go to Iraq: too dangerous

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Grammy, Baby!

Check out this showdown of past-their-prime rockers: Bono vs ... Billy Squier?

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Autoblog

Public Relations Disasters

Miami named worst road rage city for second straight year

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People Magazine

Facebook Tips

Cameron Diaz hooks up in Vegas with "Mindfreak" magician Criss Angel: Timberlake has officially disappeared

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MSNBC

Public Relations Disasters

Bausch & Lomb sold after potentially blinding many with now scratched product Renu

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Bad Ideas

Sophia Loren threatens a striptease at age 72

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ABC News

False Advertising

Computer giant denies charges of false advertising after suit filed to stop "Dell hell"

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eDrugSearch Blog

Web Design News

Man, you know the Mafia is on its last legs when it has to illegally cop massive quantities of Viagra

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SEO Services

Trade press sees trouble ahead for the stock photo industry

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Social Media Fails

Check out the photoshop magic on Kelly Clarkson's latest album cover

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Britney Spears has reportedly cut her mom out of her life even refusing to visit her on Mother's Day while she was in the hospital

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Facebook Tips

The rumors are true, it's on between Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.

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People Magazine

Attention Whores

John Mayer names himself spokesperson of his generation to presidential hopeful John Edwards

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People Magazine

Content Marketing News

This is a big year for Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh - first she gets her own show, now she's engaged

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Public Relations Disasters

Top law enforcement officials are charging that MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information

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Public Relations Disasters

Is eBay responsible for the threatened global extinction of the elephant by condoning a "rampant trade" in ivory?

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Market Intelligence

As marketers keep finding ways to force-feed ads, innovators counter with novel avoidance techniques

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Hollywood Tuna

Attention Whores

Breaking news: Positive story actually written about Lindsay Lohan

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Publicity Stunts

Coffee Nation owners should be ashamed of themselves for bikini-barista stunt

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Web Design Inspiration

ESPN shows its journalistic chops by covering the National Bikini Pillow Fighting Championships

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Attention Whores

In the UK, singers Lily Allen and Cheryl Cole are having a major media catfight

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Financial Times

Legalese

State department probe on Wolfowitz

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Social Disease Media

You don't really make friends by adding one to your profile, and you don't make sales simply by having an account or profile. You're really going to have to join the community and become a participating member. (And I'm trying out my new Spin Thicket logo Heh.)

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Diversion Cubed

Web Design Inspiration

Inside Sport magazine declares that it will no longer put bikini models on its cover

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Braindead Media

Top 25 censored stories of 2007

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Brand Equity

Toyota plans to be 100 percent hybrid by 2020

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Public Relations Ideas

Bloomberg willing to spend $1 billion of his own fortune for presidency campaign...you know, since it's the money that really matters

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Overhype Alert

Is this girl a genius, or a robot?

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Thought Leadership

Beer commercial shows why Canadians shouldn't 'pimp' anything

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USA Today

Content Marketing Strategy

Illinois issues gun permit to 10-month-old baby

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PowerPoint Sucks

Rupert Murdoch's life, summarized in a pie chart

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Copyblogger

Good Ideas

Copywriting Contest: $10,000 in Prizes for Irresistible Offers

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SEO Mistakes

Fred Thompson body-slams Michael Moore in video spot on Cuba ... damn, actors make good candidates, don't they?

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Guardian

Craven Demagogues

Loathe to exit the world stage, Jacques Chirac wants to be the Bill Clinton of France -- is that with or without the BJs?

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Access Hollywood

SEO Services

Larry Flynt: Falwell and I "became good friends."

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Integrative Media

Market Intelligence

Look out Chester the Molester...Big Brother is Keeping an Eye on Your MySpace Page!

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Freudian Nip Slips

Britney Spears showed up at the Millennium Dance Studio on Sunday with a new blonde wig and (surprise!) no bra. As usual, she looked like absolute shit

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On the Media

SEO Services

Will the last American newspaper to close your Canadian bureau please bring a case of Molson back with you?

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Web Design Inspiration

Are ESPN staffers journalists or cheerleaders? The debate continues

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Public Relations Agencies

A profile of the PR mastermind behind PETA

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Harpers

Employee Morale

Commerce Department Employees Demand Prosecution of Inspector General

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Market Intelligence

Jakob Nielsen: Not so fast on Web 2.0

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Breitbart

Good Ideas

Fred Thompson responds to Michael Moore in a way only an actor could.

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Breitbart

Religiosity

"Moral Majority" founder Jerry Falwell found dead.

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Blatant Propaganda

I am the future of the Internet

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X17 Online

Facebook Tips

The first ever shots of Britney Spears with son number 2 - Jayden

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People Magazine

Celebrity Trainwrecks

Psychiatrist says Paris Hilton traumatized by upcoming jail sentence. Boo hoo.

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People Magazine

Grammy, Baby!

Kelly Clarkson suffers the ultimate insult. She was asked by her record label to cover a Lindsay Lohan tune.

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ABC News

Public Relations Disasters

White House official tells ABC News that "all options are on the table" regarding Paul Wolfowitz's future

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Wall Street Journal

Blatant Propaganda

TV Networks Use \"Blogola\" To Get Street Cred. In the blogosphere

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USA Today

Public Relations Disasters

Airlines rate lower than IRS in customer satisfaction

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Social Media News

Deeper Look Into Naked Conversations: Renowned author and blogger Shel Israel discusses corporate blogging in this Buzz Bin interview

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Market Intelligence

Home Depot falters badly: blames housing market, bad weather

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World Bank President

Villains

Wolfowitz on ethics committee: If they f*** with me, I'll f*** with them too

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Thicket Wire

Marketing Campaigns

Florida attempts to avoid flu pandemic by marketing good habits

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Public Relations Disasters

Ritz Carlton hotel chain commissions "Turndown Tales" as a promo book giveaway, then censors it by really turning it down

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Web Design Inspiration

Vince Carter chokes yet again

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Write Good

"Nigger-brown" colored Chinese leather group sold in Toronto

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Smoking Gun, The

Celebrity Trainwrecks

Bud Bundy Busted

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Public Relations Agencies

Can Companies/PR People Create Digital Media Shows? On The Recruiting Animal Show, online radio, this Wed. May 16.

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The Age

Employee Morale

Wolfowitz threatened retaliation against senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his long-time partner were revealed

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Bad Ideas

DOD says it intends to begin blocking network access—including that of soldiers serving overseas—to several sites including networking and media sharing sites like MySpace, YouTube, MTV, Pandora, and Photobucket

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Market Intelligence

Wal-Mart appeals to "modern" tech-savvy shoppers with the announcement that they will add a special section to many stores that sells Skype products including handsets, Webcams, headsets and other equipment

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Good Ideas

Web retail's user friendliness pushes apparel into top online revenue-generating category

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Public Relations Disasters

New media makes mass notification essential in crisis communications

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Public Relations Agencies

The makers of Equal and Splenda reached an undisclosed settlement over Splenda’s contested slogan “made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar"

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Fake News

Some marketing agencies say the headline-making Boston bomb hoax has actually increased business

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Brand Equity

A new study reveals that clients want multiple partners working on their brand

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Public Relations News

Industry executives disagree on whether digital is the future

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Public Relations Ideas

Potential conflict of interest over executive compensation examined by Congress

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Freudian Nip Slips

Lindsay Lohan graduates from Nip Slip University

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Social Media News

Learn to do it yourself with DIY viral video 'channels'

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Public Relations Disasters

Trent Reznor the Ralph Nader of the music industry?--Slaps Universal for over-charging fans of his music

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CNET

Public Relations News

Yahoo launches two sites to motivate people to be more green

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CNET

Social Disease Media

Cisco, MTV relying on college students for ideas about social media content

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Rank Hypocrisy

Army tightens soldiers' blogging; soldier blogger wins 'Blooker' prize for best book that started as a blog

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Public Relations Ideas

Clinton vs. Obama round 23: Bring in the endorsements

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Bad Ideas

David Blaine and his emotionally vapid voice may very well be the worst celebrity endorsement of all time

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Public Relations Disasters

Wolfowitz 'broke World Bank laws'

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Public Relations Ideas

Friendly FBI reminder: Today is Internet Wiretapping Deadline Day

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Marketing Campaigns

Adidas combines intense loyalty and fierce rivalries of soccer in aggressive new campaign

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Public Relations Disasters

Illinois librarians protest the use of censorware on publiccomputers

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Integrative Media

False Advertising

Book a trip on Delta and get a ride in a Police Helicopter?

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Reason

Legalese

Charges dropped against guys behind Boston Mooninite Aqua Teen hoax

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Chicago Tribune

Villains

Papers were victim, not his lordship

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International Herald Tribune

Public Relations Disasters

World Bank documents suggest Wolfowitz was aware of conflict of interest concerns

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TechCrunch

Public Relations News

Orgoo starts promising new webmil/IM service

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Web Design Inspiration

Farve claims never asked for trade as reported: returning for 17th year

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Pensacola News-Journal

Public Relations News

Walmart to introduce Skype nationwide, making cheap internet phone service more accessible

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Religiosity

Religious organizations increasingly using lobbyists to get federal money

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wgn

Public Relations Disasters

Student sues Chicago education board after suffering psychological distress after being forced to watch "Brokeback Mountain"

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Marketing Campaigns

Realtors pump extra dollars into advertising to thwart reality of a bad market

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Public Relations Ideas

The Nation probes potential conflicts for Mark Penn as Burson-Marsteller CEO and Hillary Clinton's pollster

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Facebook Tips

None other than Patty Hearst weighs in on Paris Hilton's jail time

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Is Whitney Houston back on drugs and could this be her drug den?

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Attention Whores

Apparently, someone punched Jared Leto in the back while he was surfing in Hawaii - good job whoever you are!

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People Magazine

Attention Whores

If you are interested, how to be Scarlett Johansson's perfect man

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SEO Services

How measuring the impact of social media on your brand is an essential part of a successful media strategy

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Public Relations Disasters

OxyContin Under Fire — With Consumer Trust Lost, Effective PR Must Step In To Salvage Company Reputation

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Public Relations Disasters

Twenty-nine state attorneys general urged Anheuser-Busch last week to warn buyers of Spykes and other alcoholic drinks combined with caffeine about the dangers of mixing the two substances

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Public Relations Disasters

The dairy industry has been forced to stop their “Body by Milk” campaign and due to the discovery of a lack of sufficient research to support the beverage’s weight loss claims

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iMedia Connection

Public Relations News

What Twitter means for marketers

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SEO Tips

Who's crazier -- Scientologists or British TV reporters? You might be surprised

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Buzz Bin

Public Relations Agencies

Get On Board: The Social Media Release: Discusses evolution of new PR release form

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Freudian Nip Slips

These are just a little too easy; latest Hohan nipple slip (nsfw)

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Fox News

Bad Ideas

Dallas suburb first to ban landlords from renting to illegals

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CBS News

Web Design Inspiration

Farve apparently asks for trade after team doesn't get Moss; Brownback still prefers Peyton Manning

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Good Ideas

Your confiscated airport items are being donated to the homeless

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Paris receives open letter from Tori Spelling's mom, Candy: Grow up, spoiled brat

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Craven Demagogues

Bush exploits Jamestown's 400th anniversary to push Iraq War

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Publicity Stunts

Palms Las Vegas employs "Free Paris" billboard to promote its new buffet with free Paris, France trip giveaway.

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Copyblogger

PR Advice

You're always selling with your blog -- whether you like it or not

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Attention Whores

Matthew McConaughey's career is over; he forgot how to take his shirt off

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Thought Leadership

Not sure what these bikini babes are selling, but I'll take two of them

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Somewhat Frank

Market Intelligence

Stats on Internet porn -- brilliantly presented in video format

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First Draft

Web Design Inspiration

Dumbass presidential candidate Sam Brownback tells Wisconsin cheeseheads that Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback in history

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Bad Web Design

Kabul Beauty School takes Afghan women from burqas to bikini waxes

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Social Disease Media

Be careful where you link; in Hong Kong, it could get you arrested

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Public Relations Disasters

Tommy Thompson only said he hates queers because he had to go to the bathroom really, really badly

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Web Design Inspiration

If you work out at 24 Hour Fitness, you can grow to be 7'6" -- or something like that

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Celebrity Trainwrecks

Hohan hits rock bottom with latest movie bomb

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Network World

Public Relations News

Washington becomes first state to ban texting while driving

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ABC News

Religiosity

Reverend Peter Popoff makes big comeback as tv evangelist 20 years after being busted for faith healing fakery by the Amazing Randi

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ABC News

Heroes

Cat survives thirty-five days in crate until arrival in NC: took slow boat from China

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ABC News

Good Ideas

Buying flowers for mom today will help the impoverished moms in South America

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Blatant Propaganda

Bush pushes for bipartisan immigration policy to be passed this session

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Bad Web Design

Bigfoot short porn film defended: hey, it's just porn, so lighten up

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Religiosity

Pope slams Latin American drug cartels, whose activities are almost as bad as premarital sex

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Facebook Tips

Whitney sued by Bobby Brown

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Daily Stab

Facebook Tips

Ewan McGregor takes HUGE paycut ($790 per week) to do Shakespeare in London

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Daily Stab

Facebook Tips

Leonardo DiCaprio gets sued by neighbors over backyard basketball

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Int'l Herald Tribune

Public Relations Disasters

Criticized for too much smoking in the movies, MPAA may begin giving movies with cigarettes R ratings

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USA Today

Bad Web Design

Austrian library raises cash by setting up hotline where a sexy-voiced actress reads Victorian porn for 53 cents per minute

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Bad Web Design

Coffee Nation + Hawaiian Tropic = bikini baristas all summer long!

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MediaShift

Social Disease Media

Are you sharing too much information via social media? Your stalker doesn't think so

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Public Relations News

Google is a scary monster -- kind of like Godzilla but with octopus legs and a "G" on its forehead

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NewTeeVee

SEO Services

YouTube is experimenting with inline ads -- check it out

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Ezra Klein

Overhype Alert

VA spins itself silly overhyping its accomplishments -- gets busted

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Content Marketing News

CNN prankster puts the words "Bush resigns" on screen (for 12 seconds)

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Religiosity

Jeez -- why can't conservative college students bash Muslims in peace without the administration making a big deal over it??

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Public Relations News

Companies offer to clean up your online image by utilizing their technology

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Smoking Gun, The

Web Design News

Richmond art gallery censors itself before Obama's visit -- talk about PC

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CBS News

Facebook Tips

Paparazzo sues Hohan for running over his foot; she claims he was faking it

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BusinessWeek

Villains

U.S. companies circle ravenously over the country's working poor, devising ways to extract even more profits

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MSNBC

Content Marketing News

Brains easily over brawn on this season's "Survivor"

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Fox News

Legalese

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis ordered to face tax charges in Nevada upon release from jail in Florida (where he faces further problems)

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AOL

Public Relations Disasters

L.A. tops America's five dirtiest cities

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Public Relations Disasters

Japan halts plan encouraging more breast feeding and lullaby singing after critics attack its intrusiveness

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SEO Services

Idol, House lead Fox to top of the ratings pack

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National Enquirer

Facebook Tips

Pamela Anderson starting to look old

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Public Relations Ideas

An interactive guide to Republican scandals

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CBS News

Web Design Inspiration

Tour De France champion Landis promised much lighter doping sentence if Lance fingered

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Blatant Propaganda

Michael Moore in hot water for taking 9/11 survivors for medical help in Cuba as part of his new documentary "Sicko"

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Public Relations Disasters

L.A. police look to Northern Ireland for help regarding May Day riot fiasco

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Attention Whores

Paris Hilton may spend less than three weeks behind bars due to overcrowding and good behavior laws

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People Magazine

Facebook Tips

T.R. Knight warned to stay in closet before Grey's Anatomy star admitted being gay

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Idiot Pundits

Lou Dobbs is spreading the tale that immigrants are bringing leprosy to America

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Good Ideas

Justice Department aide Goodling ordered by judge to testify in Gonzales hearing

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Baltimore Sun

Idiot Pundits

What's the big deal? Insulting Rush Limbaugh "does my heart good" too

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Public Relations News

Vonage increases sales 64% despite iffy future due to heated battle with Verizon

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Content Marketing Strategy

OxyContin maker admits it lied about the drug's addictiveness

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Blatant Propaganda

You may find this shocking, but apparently Muslims hate us now more than ever

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Market Intelligence

Are you bragging about your company's innovations to financial reporters? Don't bother -- they don't correlate innovation with performance

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Braindead Media

Why the Wall Street Journal sat on its Murdoch scoop

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News Scientist

Rank Hypocrisy

Occidental Petroleum perplexed over lawsuit for contaminating the Amazon during twenty-five year drill in Peru

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Publicity Stunts

Unilever tells skinny models that it's hard to beat Skippy

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About Us

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Heroes

If this video doesn't give you goosebumps, you might be a troll.

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Guardian

Public Relations Disasters

Europe calls for Wolfowitz to quit

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Idiot Pundits

Ari Emanuel says it's OK that Chris Albrecht beats women because Albrecht is so talented

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Bad Web Design

About a World Bank Girl

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USA Today

Idiot Pundits

Must Miss TV! Sharpton - Glenn Beck to face off on Mormon-comment controversy

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