Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Factor This

TV By The Numbers: Hillary did wonders for Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, and last Wednesday’s airing made the top 20 at #19. And it doesn’t matter how badly the yellow and porous one beats up on Bill O., we’re sure none of that is going to keep him humble. Though when he thinks about losing to the Britney’s pregnant as jailbait little sister, Jamie Lynn, it still must sting a little bit. Of course the chances that he ever thinks about that are: ZERO!

Comes this ass-kissing after Fox & Friends Steve Doocy sent up a giant PR company on air for for offering free de-lousing for Fox News green room guests who were in the house when the Fox was crawling with bedbugs:

E-mail from PR marketing honcho to Gawker It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sometimes the commitment to generate publicity can get an agency in trouble. As you noted in your post, one of our more aggressive marcom specialists at Fleishman-Hillard developed a news release for a client that made light of the FOX News green room. Understandably, the folks at FOX didn't appreciate it. One of our strengths is maintaining good relationships with major media like FOX. We talked with our friends at FOX, and also made a note to our file on how to avoid these situations in the future.

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