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Wednesday, Jul 01
Michael Jackson's PR HIStory; It Don't Matter if You're Flack or...
The majority of you were correct in answering 7 or more in our poll this morning as the number of Michael Jackson's publicists mentioned in the ongoing news cycle. Despite her very current relationship with the King of Pop, publicist-turned-manager Raymone Bain was outpaced by 90s publicist Michael Levine by about 4 to one in mentions. It could be Bain is being careful due to her monster lawsuit against Jackson, or because Levine, as we figured out, spammed countless journalists with an I-knew-this-was-coming statement a little over an hour after TMZ broke the story of his death. In fairness to Levine, I did nearly do a legit interview with him. After a number of voicemails back and forth of the course of the day, I finally got him on the horn only to be denied an interview because I was using a cell phone. He also declined to answer questions over email. By then the opportunity had passed. The other five former publicists include: Stuart Backerman, publicist from 2002 to 2004 Max Clifford, UK PR legend helped launch the Jackson 5 in '67-'68 when working in the press office at EMI Kevin McLin, Chairman of the Mass Comm Department at Dillard U., publicist from 1996 - 2005. Or is it spelled McLyn? Local Louisiana media has both. Jonathan Morrish, while at CBS in the 70s, now Director of music licensing company PPL (op-ed in The Independent) Arthur Phoenix, publicist to the family and advisor to Tito in fact said on 6/10 Jackson would not be able to handle the 50 show marathon planned for this summer Email This Post |
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