Andrea Hissom - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:22:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Former AP Journo Recalls ‘Royal Choke Job’ Although Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke (pictured) is not invited to this weekend’s other royal wedding – the marriage of casino titan Steve Wynn to British gal Andrea Hissom – he takes the opportunity to muse about some run-ins with higher ups.

In 1999, the Hard Rock Hotel took a hard line against Clarke after he wrote about Ben Affleck‘s $660,000 winnings and six-figure tipping of waiters and dealers. Then there was the time, as coordinator of Associated Press coverage of the LA Summer Olympics, that Clarke was tasked with covering a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for the British Olympic Committee.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/norm-clark-prince-andrew-los-angeles-1984-summer-olympics_b27664#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/norm-clark-prince-andrew-los-angeles-1984-summer-olympics_b27664 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=27664 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:15:08 +0000