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Unfortunate in the News : Big Headline

Is the greatest Publicity bad publicity?  Seems to be. The worse the news is the more likely that is going to attract a  wide audience and Tons of headlines.  Look Back at the Past year. The biggest stories being the brawl between Rihanna and Chris brown,  Jon Gosselin and his Ed hardy T-Shirts, the Death of the King of Pop, Or the Hurricane that affected Haiti, and the possible demise of Brangelina.  In Rihanna’s case she was able to take that one event and launch a years worth of publicity. Going on Barbara Walters and discussing her abuse lead many to applaud her efforts, and while her most current album isn’t quite at the top of the Billboard Chart, her counter part Chris brown is still trying hard to revive the blow that his image took.

Jon Gosselin, Recently received a  huge blow to his “Ego” recently when both Kate,  and Hailey Glassman spoke out on   his less than substantial “Ego” .  In 09′ Father Gosselin received alot of negative remarks about his poor behavior while Mother Gosselin  has received her fair share of positive attention about her new hair-do, probably new show  and the  release her new book.This I find as such a ironic turn as before the coupoe publicly split kate was always the bad “girl” on the show , where Jon as the lovable  Dad.

You would think that an event as devastating as the  Hurricane in Haiti wouldn’t receive any type of negative press, but,  just this morning on Yahoo, I noticed an article on where Jay-Z mentions he doesn’t think there should have been a remake of “We are the world. ” While I  understand his point that the original may never be topped because it is so Iconic.  My honest take is why bring it up at all? Why make any sort of negative comment about something that so many people are doing to try and enforce positive changes.

And while his remark might not recieve near the flack that say, Kanye’s interruption of of Taylor’s acceptance speech did.  I have to wonder ” What’s the point?”  Well history and human behavior shows that people are, bound to slow down to look at the car wreck on the side of the road. We are, as a species very “nosey”  and, the dirtier the topic the better the gossip, in any event most all events receive their share of bad publicityas there are always Yay and Nay-sayers around every turn. While  Kanye proved to be  the most hated person on all the internet after all the tweets and negative online  mentions of his name, Micheal Jackson’s albums sold in “expected” record numbers after his death.  Having No Press is the worst press, where as bad press? That can be great press.

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