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Vote Now or Forever Wish You Did

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Ladies and Gentlemen of the Bar, it's election time! Thanks to your input, we've gathered the best and worst dressed sites in the PR industry and ponied them up for you to make the last call. Where Is My Butterfly Ballot?

Pricey Pixels Put Newscasters in Premium Sets

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


For just $40,000 up to $250,000, news stations are airing their broadcasts in posh studio settings that would cost them millions of dollars to build or lease. Around 40 stations, including Equity Broadcasting of Little Rock, have gone virtual. Protruding Pixels

What Was Ogilvy & Mather Snorting?

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


O&M overcharged the Office of National Drug Control Policy around $850,000; settled for $1.8 million. It's not clear who is on drugs, because the Drug Control Office continues to do biz with Ogilvy. Ultimate Drug Test

Under-30 Crowd Becoming Digital Addicts

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


The under-30 crowd, with good eyesight and impressive computer skills, is dumping newspapers in favor of Web-based news and ads. Newspapers have gotten the wake-up call, but haven't hit on a winning strategy to increase this group's reading frequency. More RAM, Less Filling

We're From the Government; You Can Trust Us

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


The Pentagon's short-lived Office of Strategic Influence bites the dust after a barrage of media reports level accusations that the office planned to use "black ops" to spread lies and false information overseas. That's a lie, said Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Bad Influence

CNN, Seeing Stars, Snags Connie Chung

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


CNN already has old, egotistical, much-married-guy fans locked up with Larry King. Now, it's going after the older Asian market, as well, by putting new hire Connie Chung, 55, in the death spot opposite Fox star Bill O'Reilly. Ka-Ching, Ka-Chung

These Commentators Are Right

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Best-selling books by Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Barbara Olson, Peggy Noonan, and Bernard Goldberg prove that conservative pundits haven't totally given in to the dreaded liberal media. Of course being "right" isn't enough for the ultra-conservative Buchanan. The Right's Stuff

MSNBC Type-Casts Black Guest

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Consultant Niger Innis fell victim to a network nightmare early last week, when an on-screen graphic posted a most unfortunate and offensive misspelling of his name. It Was Graphic

Enron Exec Lay's Wife Sticks Her Assets Out

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


With a wife like Linda, former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay doesn't need a press agent. At present, the poor guy's assets apparently total less than $38 million. "We're fighting for liquidity," she said. Making Ends Meet

Enron Says Bless You, Arthur Andersen

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Anything for a distraction! Arthur Anderson shows up at exactly the right time to take some of the heat, and to inflict a new round of publicity, on the enormous Enron bankruptcy. I Can't Account For It