and a media association has hired the pig, Louis C.K., to be their headliner for the big media dinner?
The son of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch –who ranks No. 45 on the Forbes World's Richest People list, and heads Fox Entertainment Group –told a media dinner in Sydney that "The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media the requirement to make a profit somehow corrupts the craft".
Thank them by hosting an exclusive "women in media" dinner celebrating a diverse roster of hard working full time columnists from every borough of London (zones 1 and 2).
Governor Jerry Brown, who can go for weeks without holding a public event, dropped his latest stealth mode with a trip over the weekend to Washington where he held private meetings at the White House and State Department and attended the annual semi-off-the-record Gridiron media dinner.
In the past two weeks, discussing who knew what and when has become a grim, un-fun Hollywood parlor game, playing out on social media, at dinner parties, over drinks.
(A reference to old media perhaps?) Dinner announced, Mr. Riggio walked from his mansion, on a lawn as green as a Barnes & Noble logo, to a tent where a jazz band played songs from an era before Kindles, iPads and something called the cloud replaced bookstore shelves.
He courted the city's leaders of business and media over dinners and one-on-one meetings for several months, despite the initial resistance of his top aides who worried that a bid for a third term could harm his legacy as a reformer.
Keenly aware of the dinners' social and political significance, aides kept a tight lid on the guest list ahead of the event, but leaks in the US news media indicated the dinner would be well attended by Indian-American stars of politics, popular culture and journalism.
Proving he and his handlers have been well schooled in marketing, he also said he planned to take every member of the news media out to dinner, adding, "But the check is on you if your reporting makes me look bad".
As a former international, he moves about the rugby universe with practised ease, a guest at dinners, media pundit, a facilitator of regular rugby beanos, that sort of thing.
There is so much glad-handing, so many media appearances and dinners and smiling and waving, that you must be both fit and energetic and sage enough to know when to delegate to those around you.
