It’s so hard. You try to be funny – or to make fun – and it all comes out the wrong way.
Yesterday, John Kerry said:
“You know, education – if you make the most of it – you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do [...]

Ten days and counting until the Dixie Chicks make their move to get back on the map with the national release of their documentary “Shut Up and Sing”. The documentary promises all the thrills and chills of a Hollywood thriller… “lies exposed,” “truth revealed” and “conspiracy uncovered.” Since the documentary is only showing [...]

Last week the Commission of the Internal Revenue Service announced the agency is postponing collecting back taxes and sending out failure-to-file notices to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Nice idea, considering that the infrastructure and response systems these 1.2 million people paid for with their taxes utterly failed them. But before you regain to [...]

Rupert Murdoch is one of the most interesting and powerful players in the media. As CEO of News Corp., he has his plate full overseeing properties such as the New York Post, DIRECTV, Sky, FOX, The Sun, and now MySpace to name a few.

How powerful is he? It’s safe to say: pretty damn [...]

Big news from the leader of the free world yesterday. Turns out that Bushy-boy uses “the Google” when he longs to be back in good ol’ Texas.
According to the Mail & Guardian,
“Occasionally,” Bush told MSNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. “One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting [...]

In case you haven’t heard, there’s been a lot of talk about the Michael J. Fox ad and the criticism of Senator Jim Talent in Missouri about his position on stem cell research. It really heated up when good ol’ Rush Limbaugh claimed that he wasn’t on his meds at the time.
The PRpulp team [...]

Introducing a new type of post to PRpulp that we’re dubbing “the slice of knowledge.”
Call it a maxim, tid-bit, law, rule-of-thumb, whatever… We just hope it’s useful in your daily life. Some of these may stuff we’ve dreamed-up on our own. Others may not. If that’s the case, we’ll make every [...]

There’s rich, and then there’s really rich.
According to The NYT, it looks like Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/Interactive tends to fall into the later category. Last year, he reportedly raked-in $295 million.
“By any objective measure, Barry Diller is grossly overpaid,” said Jonathan Weil, managing director of Glass Lewis.
Mr. Diller’s pay package goes beyond [...]

Forget that badge for basketry, canoing, and fish and wildlife management. Now Boy Scouts can get one for pledging to be ethical when it comes to copyrighted content.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has teamed-up with the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts of America to offer a curriculum to help steer the young [...]

Even though we blog so seriously about metrics, new interactive technologies, and huge media deals, you have to loosen the collar now and again.

Check out the PhilTube spoof site…
Thanks for the idea, gapingvoid.