{"id":350,"date":"2007-02-13T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-06-14T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T01:43:35","slug":"joan-baez-publicist-shows-how-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Joan Baez’ Publicist Shows How It’s Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Straka, VP and Executive Producer of FOXNews.com, got dissed<\/a> in a most deserving way. The author of “Grrr! Celebrities Are Ruining Our Country”<\/em>, was attempting to corral a celebrity at the Grammys so he could mooch a little bit off of her fame. After which he likely would have included her in his next celeb bashing book. As he tells the story of his brief encounter with Joan Baez…<\/p>\n

“she was on her way over to talk to Anita Vogel and me when her publicist whisked her away shouting, “They’re FOX. We don’t talk to FOX.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Are you listening celebrities, publicists and, for that matter, politicians? It’s just that easy. My compliments to the astute publicist who steered her client away from the “flabbergasted”<\/em> Strata. Although why he would be surprised is confusing. As the author of a book that accuses celebrities of ruining the country, and a honcho at a network that features Laura Ingraham and her “Shut up and Sing”<\/em> mentality, Strata ought to have been embarrassed to show up on the red carpet at all. He could learn something himself from the introduction Baez gave to the Dixie Chicks that evening:<\/p>\n

“I’ve spent much of my life being told to shut up and sing. Yet every once in a while, artists stand up and use the power of music to show us the great American folksinger Woody Guthrie had the right dream: This land is your land. This land is my land…<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Artists, musicians, celebrities, and other creative people in public life are not the ones who are ruining this country, Mr. Strata. It’s the media whores who are so obsessed with tabloid melodrama that they fail to cover truly important issues who are causing the real damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Straka, VP and Executive Producer of FOXNews.com, got dissed in a most deserving way. The author of “Grrr! Celebrities Are Ruining Our Country”, was attempting to corral a celebrity at the Grammys so he could mooch a little bit off of her fame. After which he likely would have included her in his next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[33,200,580],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-joan-baez","tag-mike-straka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":407,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=407","url_meta":{"origin":350,"position":0},"title":"How To Handle Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/11\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Politico speculates that Fox News might retaliate against John Edwards for his principled stand against participating in debates sponsored by the network devoted to defeating Democrats. 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