And here’s me thinking to myself:
Good morning my back side! You put on a star studded event last night and didn’t have the decency to reach out and invite me but now you want to use our journal as a product placement conduit to serve your needs? That way you can go back to your client and tell them here’s all the press you got, and of course validate your fees. Are you out of your mind? At least do the right thing and offer to cut me a check for said product placement- after all what are we asking for right here- certainly not a news story but a straight up banner ad of your event.
And this below is how I responded after I calmed down:
At least to Ashley’s credit (0f course if you really wanted to you can do some homework and figure out which public relations house Ashley works for…okay, I’ll just tell you anyway- ) she wrote back to say going forward she would make a point of bullshitting adding me to the invited press list in the future.
The more I think about things, the more I am inclined to believe that I should begin charging a fee to come out and cover most of your events. After all Patrick McMullan makes sure he gets paid, so does Billy Farrell as well as Rachelle Hruska (who if you go to her website- Guest of a guest– explicitly tell you bixche’s to pay up). And please get the idea out of your head we’re getting some sort of astronomical traffic on your event, after all how many outside of the Upper East side bother to read up about Emma Snowden Jones‘ misadventures?
Then of course I get the argument as a journalist I can’t charge people. Well here’s my response- you would be right if this was a legitimate news story, but what most society event coverage amounts to is orchestrated propaganda. To be outright honest it is strictly product endorsement. That is why most mainstream media outlets don’t even bother attending 92% of events- cause it’s not news- it’s endorsement. And if they are turning up – it’s because Emma Snowden Jones Leonardo DiCaprio is there or it’s the occasional compelling cause and or they are simply getting paid for it, or at least some other kick backs favors.
So please ladies and gentlemen of the public relations world- start treating us society reporters with respect, even allocate a portion of your budget for us to cover your event product placement (really that’s what it amounts to) and we too will give you a perfect pr write up that your client can be proud of. Or on the other hand approach us with respect and ask us if this is something we would consider writing about, assuming it reflects one’s journal editorial gambit.
Either way the media industry is fast changing and I for one think it would be a good idea if we all came clean as to what is really going on as opposed to pretending it’s all just vanilla society reporting when kids it’s unabashed product placement and desperately unhappy people looking for social standing.
Jerking off with the Metropolitan Museum Gala Propaganda Committee
NYRP PICNIC A MYSTERY, JOURNALISTS TOLD TO LEAVE.
JONATHAN MARDER AND HIS RIDICULOUS EGO TRIP.
PAYOLA: STARRING LINDSAY LOHAN AND CO.
SHOULD A WRITER JUST GIVE UP AND BECOME A SOCIALITE INSTEAD?
AND SO IT CONTINUES- DARREN BETTENCOURT INSISTS HIS CLIENT JILL ZARIN IS NOT A MEDIA WHORE.
THE DECEITFUL TRICKS OF PSEUDO CELEBRITIES.
THE DIZZY AND NASTY RISE OF THE NY PUBLICIST…WELCOME ALISON BROD.
you know how I feel, when you post about publicists.
Trust me as journalist/bloggers we’re not looking for a free party, we have many of our own to attend as well. What you’re missing is the dynamics of how most publicists essentially try and use most of us writers in media. It’s not very appealing and really at the end of the day most of the invites we get are in my opinion to irrelevant events for irrelevant people who think we are dying to attend and then go home and do these glamor write ups, with very most readers not even caring for the event, which means a negative return on our time and investment. Then again there is the odd story, entity that I will make a personal sacrifice for because I believe in their mission statement, but to be fed a pr story from a publicist the day after an event especially after we were not even given the option to attend is the new low in publicist behavior, who so many are in my opinion the new bottom feeders in media and the ones looking for a free party.
That is a publicist’s job…we don’t just want you to attend. If it was a free party we would invite our FRIENDS.
maybe some chicken mc nuggets
free crack?
Do you want to COVER these events or do you really just want a FREE MEAL?
Yo!! mf’er If you don’t like our press releases then shove them up your twat Scallywag should be taken off the net and you should go back to Australia with Crockodile dunde and the rest of’em