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Ronn Torossian, Gawker Stalking on a Summer's Eve
(Guerrilla domain squatting begets very douchey counter-squatting; image found on RonnTorossianPR.com at press time)
Leaks, lawsuits and cyber-squatting continues in the saga of the Fastest Growing PR Agency ever, 5WPR.
CEO Ronn [sic] Torossian as he's known on Gawker, is threatening another enemy with a lawsuit. This time it's his own recently departed head of HR over help she may have given to a colleague's job search.
The scoop belongs to former PRWeek reporter Hamilton Nolan, of course.
Hamilton can forget launching a website using his own name as the URL. Guess who bought the domain? Yes, 5WPR!
We're looking in to the merry prankster behind RonnTorossianPR.com which at press time conveyed quite a clean and refreshing message.
How To Get on Gawker
Get good interviews and the hits will come. That sentence could describe PR video maven Doug Simon's strategy to bring traffic to his D S Simon Vlog Views video blog.
Simon's interview with Associated Press entertainment editor Jesse Washington, now well known for having Britney Spear's obituary written and ready to go, landed on Gawker.com today.
Disclosure: This PRNewser counts Doug Simon among his former bosses.
Orange Flacks Can't Vote; No, Yes They Can!
(yup, still available on WireImage)
After dutifully (some areas of the PR beat are just, dutiful) reading Gawker's items about flackstress/felloness Lizzie Grubman's inability to vote, or not, we logged in to WireImage.com and briefly became excited by not seeing that sun-scorched images of her from last summer. We thought maybe she had them removed. Alas, you'll find three if you scroll.
Sigh. She's taught the business two things about the persistent nature of media. One, don't do anything to get on the Smoking Gun. Two, don't walk the line if you're orange.
Then, an epiphany upon reading the deliciously baked poetry of commenter BettyCrocker: Is Gawker's traffic mostly from addicted supercommenters? Betty commented 19 times yesterday, and 19 times the day before. Damn, we really need comments back on PRNewser.
BettyCrocker's delightful poem about Ms. Grubman is after the jump:
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