By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gets our nod for the best 45 seconds of clichés by a politician obviously in search of a sports announcing spot in a second career. The conversation was about the gov's weight loss, but it turned into a string of comedy one-liners, perfect for today's Imus show. Weight A Minute
By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
How do you spread a new virus? By creative interpersonal marketing and word of mouth, says Chief Curmudgeon Rich Barger. Viral marketing is inexpensive, credible, and can spread information like -- well, like a virus. Here's how we've done it -- and continue to do it -- at CornerBarPR.com®. Behold The Dancing Baby
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
"Can we see my house from here?" Well, if not, you should have subscribed to Reason Magazine; then everyone you know could see it. If you're already a subscriber, your home will be on the cover of the June issue. That's right, your home! Mass Customization
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Job hunting? Your resume may be getting blocked by a "spam filter" on the hiring person's computer system. Those magic words that sell your abilities and desirability for the recipient's job likely are the same ones used by companies trying to sell Viagra or low-interest-rate home loans. But It's NOT Porn!
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Air America isn't only the CIA's airline. It also is a new nine-station radio network built as a counterweight to the dreaded conservative talk radio. Leftward-tilting comedian Al Franken has defined himself by what he is not: a media heavyweight like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. No Rush
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
The pages of CornerBarPR.com® and the media data on Contacts On Tap™ are available faster than ever, after our move to a new traffic-management system for data access. Well, you don't care about the technology, only the outcome, and it's quick, translating into a better experience for our patrons. No Doo-Doo
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
It's a right-wing conspiracy! That's what radio host Howard Stern said when the country's largest radio chain dropped his show like a hot potato. Seems the feds decided to fine Clear Channel Communications $495,000 after Stern's sexually explicit show triggered the FCC's antenna. They must have thought it was the current version of George Carlin's seven dirty words. Shocked Jock
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Notorious lying, plagiarizing journalist Jayson Blair, formerly of The New York Times, is about to drop off the bookseller's radar screen. His story, a scandal at this country's most powerful newspaper, inched as high as No. 32 on The New York Times nonfiction Best Seller's list, but, by 11 Apr 04, it will fall from the list, doubtless never to return. Laughing Liberals
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Southern Living has pulled its April issue from store shelves and notified subscribers, because of food with a serious case of indigestion. The magazine's recipe for "Icebox Dinner Rolls" may be delicious, but it also has a tendency to explode. And you thought carbohydarates were bad ... Bin Laden's Cookbook?
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
This morning, Don Imus ("Imus in the Morning") once again proved the old adage, "Never get into an argument with someone who buys ink by the barrel." Or who controls the microphone and has a large, loyal, nationwide broadcast audience. Ten years after grocer Stu Leonard went to prison for tax evasion, Leonard Junior ticked off Imus, who dredged up daddy's jail time for one of his classic satires. You don't want to be the butt of those, we assure you. Power Of The Press
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Chicago's Harry Caray's Restaurant managed an incredible publicity coup from buying and blowing up a baseball. Oh, it's a bit more complicated than that, but the stunt raised a million dollars, was carried worldwide, and may even have ended Sam Sianis' six-decade curse. Explosive Evidence
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
Kansas City radio station KYYS has been busted for a billboard anouncing their anniversary. Why the fuss? Their billboard graphic merely showed the swimsuit- and bikini-clad bosoms of 15 lasses, helping the radio station celebrate "30 big ones!" Nothing on the billboard was flashing ... Breasts To Bellies
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
A lot of pots and pans and accusations were hurled, but Rosie O'Donnell's split from her namesake magazine eventually took on the aura of a no-fault divorce. Not a happy parting, but no alimony, either. The judge called it a fight over "bragging rights." We call it a mating of elephants. Un-Damaged
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
"Got media lists?" asks the Jan 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. If not, who ya gonna turn to? Well, it ain't "Ghostbusters," that's for damn sure. It's Not $6000, Either
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
On a recent Hannity & Colmes show on FOX News, where the debate is claimed to be fair and balanced, guest Geraldo Rivera said, "Reporters don't report buildings that don't burn." The controversial reporter said the success stories of post-Saddam Iraq aren't being told ... only coverage on burning buildings and body counts. Which leads CornerBarPR.com® to question, If the media are the watchdogs of the government, who's the watchdog of the media? Are the media acting like rottweilers, watchdogs, or lap dogs? Or maybe ratings whores? Watching Watchdogs
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
"There are known knowns, ... there are known unknown ...?" Upstaging his fumble-mouthed boss, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's known knowns -- not known nouns -- has won this year's "Foot in Mouth" award for the most baffling statement by a public figure. The logic is indisputable, if you can follow it. He even outdid Arnold's reprise of the movie, "When a Man Loves a Woman." Sticks 'n Stones
By CornerBarPR.com® Staff
If you find money sexy, then the IABC/Delahaye Medialink 2003 Research and Measurement Conference may be just right for you. It may not sound like a money conference, but the New York gathering Nov. 20-21 is all about "Generat[ing] a Positive Return on Your [PR] Investment." Today's economic environment may have screwed up everything in business, but it presents a golden opportunity for communicators. What better place than Times Square to expose communicators to research-based findings of moving from a world of opportunistic PR to one where only the communicators who control the PR/ROI framework will be left standing? Money Talks
By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
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By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
CornerBarPR.com® and Contacts On Tap™ are back on line after equipment servicing several of the nation's Internet "backbone" providers was drowned by a water pipe break at a local telecom switching center. Our servers and data are fine, but there was no way for us to access the Internet until our Tech God set up a wireless link to a different facility on the other side of the problem. Water, Water Everywhere
By Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR
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