Filed under: Intents and Purposes, Rants, Stupid Media | Tags: Gossip Girl, Publicity
First there was Samantha in Sex and The City and now… Serena in Gossip Girl.
In the show, Serena, who graduates high school planning to Brown, decides to defer her college experience and take some time to “find herself” and experience the “real world.”
First of all, if this is taking place in the present day no one in their right mind would willing pass up school to go look for a job… NO ONE.
So Serena, through her crazy experiences and encounters, gets offered, right off the bat, a job as a celebrity publicity.
In today’s world it really is all about who you know but come on…
What makes me the most upset is how these publicist characters are just stereotyped to be crazy manipulating truth spinners who are looking for press.. not matter what the outlook.
It’s disappointing to think that is how people see those in the publicity field.
According to EW Popwatch (that I normally LOVE):
But Serena just doesn’t seem like a publicist to me; that job reeks of Blair Waldorf.
And while, yes, the point was Serena was young and naive, but knew how to be a friend and do the right thing.. blah blah blah… does that mean that a publicist is supposed to be a stuck up bitch?
Being a publicist takes tenacity, persistence, patience and a thick skin and it really is craft that one does not learn over night or by the age of 18.
And scene.
Filed under: On Location, Rants, Stupid Media | Tags: Box Office, Fast & Furious
So I quickly got infuriated when I learned the newest installment in The Fast and The Furious series shattered box offices numbers by pulling in an estimated $72.5 million this weekend.. also making it the biggest opening for an April movie.
Seriously, though…
I will be honest that I saw the first movie and I was in high school so I thought oh sure, that was pretty cool, Paul Walker is pretty hot.
Now we come to installment no. 4.. where Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reunite because their careers have been, let’s face it, Tokyo drifting. What makes me mad about this movie (besides it making tons of cash money) is the fact that all they did was remove the “The” from the title– Fast & Furious. I mean at least think of a new name but no, instead the just tacked on some dumb tag line — “New Model. Original Parts.”
More like “Same old model with some slight adjustments, like the omission of the word ‘the’”
But hey, who am I to criticize, the movie made a killing.
So I guess this Really?! goes out to those movie-going Americans who paid money to see the movie and contributed to that $72.5 mill…. Really?!
Filed under: Rants, Stupid Media | Tags: AIG, Burson-Marsteller, CNBC, Maddow, Santelli, Stewart
Time to take a look at some amusing clips in relation to today’s economic situation.
First up is Rachel Maddow on AIG’s Image Clean Up and Mark Penn’s Burson-Marsteller.
In this clip, Maddow discusses AIG’s recent announcement of the addition of new PR firm to their list in order to help polish up their image. She proceeds to slam the company for using American taxpayer money to clean it’s beyond tarnished image. Watch as she continues to eviscerate Burson Marsteller, previously called in to represent AIG, saying: “When Evil Needs Public Relations, Evil Has Burson-Marsteller On Speed-Dial”
Yowza. After watching that, I wondered if BM or Penn had any sort of response to that and as of this morning, I found none. Wouldn’t you think that being a PR firm would mean they would be all over the damage control…
Next clip is courtesy of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show.
Stewart was supposed to have Rick Santelli, CNBC analyst, on his show and when Santelli bailed out (no pun intended), well, Stewart had to get his two-cents in…
Looks like Santelli is, as Stewart points out, “MAD AS HELL AND [HE'S] NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE”
I just love the digs at CNBC. Santelli is an idiot.
Filed under: Stupid Media
First: That was a song reference, if you didn’t catch that. Get used to them. They will be everywhere.
Second: This post is about the inspiration for this blog.
A few days back I posted a link on twitter (@kmwrather) to a post I saw on Gawker.
Basically, I was just so amused to be given another reason to loathe Fox News and its assumption that using an asterisk in an ad to point out its presumed superiority was both a mature and credible tactic.
Fox News Asterisk
I personally like the use of big, bullying words like “half-bake” and caps lock for emphasis.
Anyway, this prompted me to twitter the following:
My Tweet
To which, my good friend Bobby Kennedy responded:
Bobby's Response
Thus, this new blog was born! (Plus I really loved Really?! with Seth and Amy, so now it’s my turn… and one step closer to my SNL dream…)
You can read the Gawker post here and judge for yourself on that one.
In the meantime..
Look out world, you better believe I’m watching and what you’re doing just might deserve a Really?!
Suggestions? Thoughts? Comments? Leave ‘em below or shoot me an email at kmwrather[at]gmail[dot]com
