Met PR machine jumps on Moss bandwagon
A successful week for Kate Moss, H&M and Sir Ian Blair.
Moss has fulfilled her duties as a celebrity by raising her profile with allegations that she took cocaine. These allegations, and the subsequent column-inches and air-time invested in them by the media, in turn have fulfilled her contract with various parts of the fashion industry by raising their profiles too.
H&M capitalised on their publicity-by-association well, by making the headlines three days in a row - 'Moss says sorry to H&M', 'Moss will still front H&M ad campaign', 'H&M drops Moss over drug claims'. Clever bunnies.
Now the Metropolitan Police have got in on the act. Since the 22nd of July, when Met Officers shot 27-year-old Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in the head at Stockwell Tube Station there has been little else written about the Met or it's aptly surnamed commissioner. 'Sir Ian Blair defends shoot to kill', 'Met obstructed shooting investigation', and 'IPCC leak shooting inquiry info' do not cast the Met in the best of lights. What better solution than to grab the headlines back by putting the boot into some coke-snorting celeb?
'Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the possible impact of such behaviour on "impressionable young people" had led to the inquiry'. Balls. It's a chance to give the impression that the police are doing something other than shoot Brazilians in the head and to get Sir Ian's picture in the paper next to a supermodel.
Blair degrades his profession by chasing headlines instead of criminals; putting public opinion of him above getting his job done. As with his namesake, his actions represent the short-term, soulless, self preserving nature of our new elite. New Labour's shoddy, self-serving, vainglorious, vapid, egotistical bottom-feeding principles have contaminated public life since our unwitting infection under the promise of 'whiter than white' government.
Time for both Blairs to go. Let's see if Brown can be whiter than 'whiter than white' himself.
Moss has fulfilled her duties as a celebrity by raising her profile with allegations that she took cocaine. These allegations, and the subsequent column-inches and air-time invested in them by the media, in turn have fulfilled her contract with various parts of the fashion industry by raising their profiles too.
H&M capitalised on their publicity-by-association well, by making the headlines three days in a row - 'Moss says sorry to H&M', 'Moss will still front H&M ad campaign', 'H&M drops Moss over drug claims'. Clever bunnies.
Now the Metropolitan Police have got in on the act. Since the 22nd of July, when Met Officers shot 27-year-old Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in the head at Stockwell Tube Station there has been little else written about the Met or it's aptly surnamed commissioner. 'Sir Ian Blair defends shoot to kill', 'Met obstructed shooting investigation', and 'IPCC leak shooting inquiry info' do not cast the Met in the best of lights. What better solution than to grab the headlines back by putting the boot into some coke-snorting celeb?
'Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the possible impact of such behaviour on "impressionable young people" had led to the inquiry'. Balls. It's a chance to give the impression that the police are doing something other than shoot Brazilians in the head and to get Sir Ian's picture in the paper next to a supermodel.
Blair degrades his profession by chasing headlines instead of criminals; putting public opinion of him above getting his job done. As with his namesake, his actions represent the short-term, soulless, self preserving nature of our new elite. New Labour's shoddy, self-serving, vainglorious, vapid, egotistical bottom-feeding principles have contaminated public life since our unwitting infection under the promise of 'whiter than white' government.
Time for both Blairs to go. Let's see if Brown can be whiter than 'whiter than white' himself.
It's the best way to win votes. Arnie didn't get in on his political skill, he got in cause 'he'll be backed'. I'm sure Glenda Jackson and (clutching at straws for previously famous MPs)... Anyone?
Posted by
Matt |
Thu Sept 22, 09:36:00 am
Seb Coe?
Posted by
Ben |
Thu Sept 22, 10:00:00 am
In the manner in which Chris was alluding to I suppose he is (was). Dignified though he is, a high class hooker is still a hooker...
Posted by
Ben |
Thu Sept 22, 11:04:00 am