New Voices: Amanda Chapel (Strumpette)
I am predicting that Amanda Chapel will go far, and not just because she is showing a lot of Victoria's Secret underwear in the banner of Strumpette, her brand new blog. She has true voice, and she's not afraid to use it:
[from About - Strumpette]What you'll find here is an honest treatment of the PR business. Why? Because there really isn't one. Some are sure to argue that point. Fact is it's quite rare.
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It's the $3.7 billion question (that's how much was spent on PR in the U.S. last year according to the NY investment bank Veronis Suhler Stevenson).
The answer is a combination of the nature of what PR does for living combined with what humans do for a living. Here, imagine life as a game of poker. Of course, it's "best hand wins all;" but the object is to increase the pot. So everyone holds their cards close to the chest. We all bluff on what we've got. That's where PR comes in. I am, we are, the Strumpette in acrylic heels behind the fat man at the table, a billboard for his brash confidence, stroking his ego, attending to his every need. Don't let anyone kid you, that whore is every man's fantasy the animal that is business is male.
But then came the Internet. Now we all can virtually see through the bluff. The game is now Indian poker where everyone else can see your hand apparently except you. And the most absurd thing is to watch the posturing, puffing and bluster that continues.
Here we expose that. Strumpette is a totally naked journal of the PR Business. Watch as I work the pole.
Wow.
So, Strumpette caused a big stir with her first post, suggesting that it was just a matter of time before Steve Rubel will leave Edelman since some bunch of her pals were having an office pool his departure date, and much of the tone is snarky, or maybe even rude. But I think she'll be a Wonkette-ish phenomenon, since there is too much buttoned-down conservatism in that industry, and it is just crying out for a whore-mouthed insider in red Manolo Blahniks, working that pole. Anyone what to bet against me?
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