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It seems the desire to add friends and connect through social networking got the best of a U.K. prison warden. The official signed up 13 criminals as Facebook friends. In addition, the warden is suspected of smuggling cell phones to his buddies, assumingly so they could keep in touch. Gawker has the whole story here.
OK…so maybe not all print media is dead. ADWEEK just released its 2009 Hot List of Top 10 magazines. The list identifies consumer mags with “standout advertising revenue and page performance.” Some familiar titles such as People and Vogue made the cut. To find out who topped the list, read the whole story here.
The iconic Obama “Hope” image created by artist Shepard Fairey has led to a series of lawsuits. Fairey used a photo taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia to create his image. The AP is arguing copyright infringement while Fairey claims the image falls under fair use provisions. Garcia, now a freelancer, wants no part of the argument. paidContent.org sums everything up. Read the full story here.
Media Week reports that Jon Stewart’s blasting of CNBC is driving record-breaking traffic to Comedy Central’s Web sites. The video (see it here), entitled “CNBC Gives Financial Advice,” points out several instances when CNBC’s financial experts have doled out poor advice. See the video below. Read the whole story here.
Remember junkets? Those wonderful media-fueled frenzies where PR folk would scream “everybody into the pool” and treat reporters to the good life for a day or more? Well, most of my journalist friends have seen the junket pool turn into a puddle with freebies going the way of fair and balanced reporting.
Or maybe my print friends are just in the wrong medium? PR Week recently featured a story on how one PR firm is treating bloggers to nights on the town in order to jump start “buzz” for a lip gloss client.
Read the story here.
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