Apparently everyone will be watching the much criticised 60 Minutes tonight ( late of Lebanese kidnap fame) as they broadcast a "hard hitting" interview with publicist Roxy Jacenko whose clients we have now all but forgotten. We have an appointment with some old friends so sadly will miss it.
A Telegraph feature pushes the tabloid TV show with a shocking revelation and we quote:
“Someone wrote on Hunter’s Instagram, ‘How’s your mummy’s fake cancer?’” she said.
“It
makes me angry, I mean the reality is you’d have to be sick in the head
to think that someone would actually manipulate a timeline on cancer.
People die from cancer.”
A two year old with an Instagram account? And a two year -old who can read and understand such a complex issue as cancer?. The mind boggles. Pictured- Roxy with Hunter as he prepares dinner.
Showing posts with label Sunday Telegraph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunday Telegraph. Show all posts
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Less is more..
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60 minutes,
cancer,
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Roxy Jacenko,
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Gossip finally silenced
Much chatter around town as the Sunday Telegraph's legendary Ros Reines is finally laid off after the News Corp axe falls on a number of employees (it's always Danger Time when Rupert Murdoch hits town). One thing is for sure, you could not ignore Reines who became feared for her exposes and sharp words but loved by readers. Her byline "The Columnist They Can't Silence"was well deserved
It's odd but for a country that claims not to take society and their shenanigans seriously, it's also a country that seems particularly sensitive to even the slightest criticism
Whispers having worked in both London and New York where the old adage- as long as they spell the name correctly- still holds sway has found Sydneysiders rather thin skinned. So of course, we are terribly nice to everyone.
Whispers first encountered Ros Reines many moons ago when she wrote for a magazine called London Index where a great friend, the late Timothy Swallow also worked. Swallow went on to work for the Daily Mail gossip king Nigel Demspter and then wrote the famous William Hickey column on the Daily Express. Sadly Timothy died during a trip to Australia but he always paid tribute to Reines superiority in being able to present a paragraph that was both amusing and wicked at the same time.
# Timothy Swallow & Whispers put the then languishing film Mommie Dearest on the map during a trip to New York. A tale for another time.
Ros appeared in these pages when we reported on her tussle with New York PR Kelly Cutrone. At the time a well known New York columnist lamented that in another era Reines & Cutrone would have got on a like a house on fire, so similar were their temperaments.
Whispers was also with Reines at the famous Nine Network TV season launch on Garden Island when media king James Packer took her aside and tore strips off her over some alleged sleight. It became the only news that weekend as new TV offerings were forgotten. In fact, we also appeared in the same Australian Story about gossip writers along with writer Simon Kent (now on the Toronto Sun in Canada). No doubt Ros Reines with a wealth of local social knowledge will surface in a new capacity and publication but it's an indication of the rapidly changing world of media.
Packer-just before he spotted Reines at his party |
Timothy Swallow |
Whispers first encountered Ros Reines many moons ago when she wrote for a magazine called London Index where a great friend, the late Timothy Swallow also worked. Swallow went on to work for the Daily Mail gossip king Nigel Demspter and then wrote the famous William Hickey column on the Daily Express. Sadly Timothy died during a trip to Australia but he always paid tribute to Reines superiority in being able to present a paragraph that was both amusing and wicked at the same time.
Kelly Cutrone in Sydney |
Ros appeared in these pages when we reported on her tussle with New York PR Kelly Cutrone. At the time a well known New York columnist lamented that in another era Reines & Cutrone would have got on a like a house on fire, so similar were their temperaments.
Whispers was also with Reines at the famous Nine Network TV season launch on Garden Island when media king James Packer took her aside and tore strips off her over some alleged sleight. It became the only news that weekend as new TV offerings were forgotten. In fact, we also appeared in the same Australian Story about gossip writers along with writer Simon Kent (now on the Toronto Sun in Canada). No doubt Ros Reines with a wealth of local social knowledge will surface in a new capacity and publication but it's an indication of the rapidly changing world of media.
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Nigel Dempster,
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Rupert Murdoch,
Sunday Telegraph,
timothy swallow
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Shy Media Mogul
Who was the smiling gent almost obscured from view in this snap taken by top social photographer Richard Dobson?. Yes it is he-the world's most powerful media mogul Rupert Murdoch who slipped quietly into town last week to attend the gongs at a lavish dinner at Sydney's State Theatre on Friday.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Murdoch awards himself first prize
It almost brings a tear to your eye. I'm sure they deserved it. The Sunday Telegraph has won the Newspaper Of The Year Award.
The award was presented to Sunday Tele editor Neil Breen by Rupert Murdoch in the annual News Ltd Awards.
The great media baron is reported as saying "he had enormous pride in the great examples of the quality journalism rewarded by the judges."
Irrelevant / Irreverent Facts : News Ltd & The Daily Telegraph are both owned by..err..Rupert Murdoch. It's the thought that counts.
Sadly, no posthumous award for the News of The World.
The award was presented to Sunday Tele editor Neil Breen by Rupert Murdoch in the annual News Ltd Awards.
The great media baron is reported as saying "he had enormous pride in the great examples of the quality journalism rewarded by the judges."
Sadly, no posthumous award for the News of The World.
Labels:
hacking,
News Ltd,
News of the World,
Rupert Murdoch,
Sunday Telegraph
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Everything Old is New Again
The media lapped up the Lady GaGa promotion and fell into lock step in the way that the Australian press is famed for reporting every action of the diva word for word as though it was an earth shattering news event.
Ms GaGa entered the stage at the beginning of her Sydney Town Hall concert (note to the Sunday Telegraph-not the Sydney Opera House as claimed on your website) in a wheelchair wearing a mermaid's tail.
'Brilliant'! they proclaimed with one voice.
One noted tabloid scribe described the colourful entertainer as "the most original performer the world has ever seen "!
Not quite. As you can see from our pic above of Lady GaGa in her wheelchair entrance, it's remarkably similar to another entertainer-Bette Midler who 20 years ago premiered her show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre by errr..arriving on stage-in a wheelchair wearing a mermaid's tail.
Ms GaGa entered the stage at the beginning of her Sydney Town Hall concert (note to the Sunday Telegraph-not the Sydney Opera House as claimed on your website) in a wheelchair wearing a mermaid's tail.
Bette Midler 1991 |
One noted tabloid scribe described the colourful entertainer as "the most original performer the world has ever seen "!
Not quite. As you can see from our pic above of Lady GaGa in her wheelchair entrance, it's remarkably similar to another entertainer-Bette Midler who 20 years ago premiered her show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre by errr..arriving on stage-in a wheelchair wearing a mermaid's tail.
Lady GaGa 2011 |
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Monday, April 11, 2011
PR Bitch-Fest Spans Two Continents!
It's been the talk of the town in coffee bars and at smart shindigs over flutes of champers and canapes. Sydney-siders excitedly discussing the slap-down given by Murdoch newspaper columnist Ros Reines of the Sunday Telegraph to local charity boy Rupert Noffs and New York celebrity fashion publicist, author and reality TV star Kelly Cutrone.
Reines called Cutrone's recent visit to Sydney for Noffs and a Gideon shoe store opening 'tragic' and accused her of 'creating mayhem' and infuriating organisers of the $2000-a-head Prix de Marie Claire Awards when Cutrone and Noffs failed to appear after being given tickets to the event. The full piece can be read here.
Not that the Awards themselves got off easy. The host of that event and editor of Marie Claire, Jackie Frank got a good dressing down as well.
Trying to get anyone to go on the record about the spat though has been a Herculean task. No-one locally seems to want to upset Ms Reines and in the Big Apple it seems Ms Cutrone's name carries considerable weight as well.
Michael Musto, top columnist on New York's Village Voice responded with an enigmatic : "I don't really know what to say about Kelly. Perhaps you should talk to Patrick (McMullan), he knows her well".
Reines, whose twitter moniker is 'tabloid terror' and who described herself as 'ruthless' in a Spectator piece continued : "On Twitter last week, Cutrone asked whether I was OK or just "vicious". When it comes to being vicious, it takes one to know one."
Calls to Cutrone's New York People's Revolution public relations firm for a comment were met with "we'll get back to you with a statement eventually". It never came.
Kelly Cutrone at Gideon Shoes. sassisamblog.com |
One who said he regularly ran into Cutrone socially and at industry events said:
A female publicist who has worked with Cutrone on various projects said :
"there's been quite a bit of chatter about the Ros Reine's piece and everyone thinks it's a bit of a scream. Most people seem to think that if Reines and Kelly met under other circumstances they'd get on like a house on fire, they seem so similar. Gideon's by choosing Kelly to promote their shoes in the US made a wise choice, there is none better at pr"
Rupert Noffs |
As for Rupert Noffs he simply sent a diplomatic " Ros is just doing what Ros has to do " reply to our email.
Perhaps the last word should go to a well known Sydney face and a regular attendee of the town's best parties who was at Paddington's swish La Scala restaurant's first year birthday bash last Tuesday evening :
"oh thank God for Ros. She breathes some sort of life into what at times seems like a completely moribund social scene."
Coming up : Rupert Noffs-charity runs in the family
Labels:
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Patrick McMullan,
Ros Reines,
Rupert Murdoch,
Rupert Noffs,
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Village Voice
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Rupert..have a word with your picture editors
While tSS has to rely on an illiterate office cat-Mildred Pierce, for our sub-editing which admittedly produces some shockers, we still haven't made some of the corkers that we spot in the News Corp tabloids.
A tale for today's Sunday Telegraph and no doubt picked up from one of it's publications from the UK stable, about Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones. This is what comes from dispensing with boozey old hacks and replacing them with bright young 25 year olds on 2 year contracts. They just don't have the experience.
The tale is headlined :
ROLLING Stones star Ronnie Wood received a black eye and a fat lip after a boozy scuffle with his latest girlfriend.
( it can be read here)
She thumped him after first ripping up two paintings he made at his mansion in Surrey, south-east England.
Such unforgiveable sacrilege, mistaking one Rolling Stone for another. This is Ronnie:
Both have crumpled but distinctive faces.
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from Der Speigel: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?
from: WFUM's Beware of The Blog : Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD
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from Der Speigel: Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?
from: WFUM's Beware of The Blog : Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD
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