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Is flight attendant Steve Slater the new Howard Beale?

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Short takes – sound bites form TJ Walker on top news stories of the day

The NYTimes reports that HP’s Pr firm made a strong case for sacking CEO Mark Hurd. From a PR standpoint, the media mess would not have been worth the fight to defend Hurd, never mind that no actual sex took place in the “affair.” It looks like bad news for HP investors is at least good news for the PR industry being taken more seriously.

Forbes announces that some of its bloggers will be paid based on page views. While I do believe in using metrics and holding people accountable, I think we can safely predict a rise in the number of stories with titles such as “Is Megan Fox a rising twitter star?” and “The economics of Brittany Spears naked photos on her fan page.”

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“I’ve had it!” The new Howard Beale emerges

by The Daily Beast
A JetBlue flight attendant fed up with a rude passenger took to the airplane’s PA system to cuss out the man, then grabbed two beers, activated, and slid down the emergency inflatable slide, and went home Monday

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