Posts Tagged ‘a-few-people’

Five People Who Speak Before They Think, Make Our Job Easier [Trash Talkers]

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Hollywood’s irascible uncle Rupert Everett has flew off the handle again , this time saying that Michael Jackson was a “freak” and better off dead. He’s just one of our favorite people who can’t be tamed by a publicist. These days, everyone in Hollywood and politics is on message all the time and media trained within an inch of their lives. Thank God there are a few people who are too washed up, too stupid, or too crazy not to give a rat’s ass what they’re told to say. Isn’t that what makes


Five People Who Speak Before They Think, Make Our Job Easier [Trash Talkers]

Dead Cat Bounce

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Speaking to a few people in the biz over the last week or so, the talk quickly turned to all of the coverage the Painkiller Epidemic was suddenly receiving from the media. The “death bounce” initiated by Michael Jackson’s passing was in full-swing. In particular, Joshua Lyon, author of the recently released Pill Head: The

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Dead Cat Bounce

You’ve been struck by, you’ve been hit by, a news criminal

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I thought about this blog post on Michael Jackson’s death for a while before writing it – on the fence as to whether it was relevant to readers, but I’ve been told over the past few days that it would make a good topic for the blog by more than a few people in the company.  But, quite frankly, I believe it to have absolutely no consequential effect on network performance, and his death, as well as the effects of his death on the Internet, really give us no new insight nor information about eithe

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You’ve been struck by, you’ve been hit by, a news criminal