Here's hoping the marketers don't win
Perhaps I've been too harsh on Paris (the self-centered, soulless ditz) who today heads straight from the big house to a broadcast interview with Larry King. AP reports these goodies:
On being serious: "Making a public service announcement against drinking and driving would be a good move for Hilton, said David Brokaw, a longtime Hollywood publicist. "That would say she's serious" about changing, he said."
Please just give money to the cause, don't be a poster girl and make more of a mockery of it.
On holding grudges: "The American people don't hold a grudge if somebody genuinely says 'I was wrong, I made mistakes, I'm sorry,' " Brokaw said. "
Please tell me that sorry doesn't cure all image woes.
On blaming others: "I appreciate everything now and I think there was a lot of bad people that I was around," she told E! "I don't want to surround myself with those types of people anymore."
Well, being your friends are all in rehab or shrinking they won't be around much longer, darlin'. In this new-media-meets-new-values world, I'm hoping the old-media marketers and image-makers don't win.
Alas, they likely will. (sigh)
PS: She may not be as pretty, and lord knows she's opinionated, I say a better celebrity is Rosie. She's real, she really helps others and she gives fans a direct line via her blog (which she--and only she--maintains). She also uses her chauffeur.
Hi CK: Thought you might be interested in this story appearing on the FOXNews site (hardly a Rosie-friendly zone, I'd think): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286518,00.html, which suggests: ""The View" sank like a stone during the first two weeks of June, right after Rosie left... a 13 percent decline in household ratings, and a 9 percent decline in overall ratings during the combined weeks of June 4 and 11 compared with Rosie's last two weeks."
Posted by: Bob LeDrew | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 09:33 AM
I'm hoping this is going be the turning point for our obsession with celebreties and our unquestioning ability to believe whatever BS "confession" their PR people feed them. Clearly Paris and her parents had a large PR team working overtime to come up with ways to clean up her image.
But her image is so shot and her statements so hollow, that this may just be the moment people say "no. Not buying it."
Posted by: Tangerine Toad | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:29 AM
@Bob: Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
@Toad: "I'm hoping this is going be the turning point for our obsession with celebreties and our unquestioning ability to believe whatever BS "confession" their PR people feed them."
Yup. They say she can cut down her probation/whatnot if she does some community service and PSAs. The last thing I want to see are her PSAs. Sigh.
Posted by: CK | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:41 AM
Did you know she's going to be teaching a class?
http://tinyurl.com/yus672
Brand building from the queen of "That's Hot!"
LOL
Posted by: Mario Vellandi | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 02:20 PM
This from CNN today:
>For now, however, the image splashed on the Internet, television and in newspapers has been of her red-carpet style exit from jail, strutting past the assembled masses in tight jeans and white stiletto heels and slapping hands with sheriff's deputies holding photographers at bay.>>
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the junior PR-niks in charge of wardrobe as getting their heads handed to them on a platter.
Posted by: Tangerine Toad | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 03:27 PM
I am SO glad I watched the Larry K. interview. Girl's been reading the bible and couldn't even recite one single quote (um, if ever in doubt, just go with "There but for the grace of God go I.").
Give a (wo)man enough rope they'll hang themselves.
Posted by: CK | Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 01:36 AM