{"id":1247,"date":"2008-01-03T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/dirty-hotel-glasses-story-on-dc-radio-show-today\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:56:46","slug":"dirty-hotel-glasses-story-on-dc-radio-show-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/dirty-hotel-glasses-story-on-dc-radio-show-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty hotel glasses story on D.C. radio show today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" width=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/steveharvey.premiereinteractive.com\/images\/steve_harvey_sm.jpg\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"Steve Harvey\" height=\"209\" title=\"Steve Harvey\" \/>Thanks to Publicity Hound Natasha Henry, a writer for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.towerfcu.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tower Federal Credit\u00a0Union <\/a>in\u00a0Laurel, Maryland, for letting me know that the story on dirty hotel glasses, which I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/i-team-story-on-dirty-hotel-glasses-how-would-you-respond\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0several weeks ago,\u00a0was featured this morning on\u00a0&#8220;The Steve Harvey Morning Show&#8221; on 96.3 WHUR-FM in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting to see how fast this story is getting around,&#8221; Natasha said.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Steve&#8217;s topic can be traced back to me, but videos like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/i-team-story-on-dirty-hotel-glasses-how-would-you-respond\" rel=\"noopener\">this one<\/a>\u00a0have legs. At\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LiveLeak.com<\/a>, where I first noticed the video,\u00a0it has received more than 4.1 million views.\u00a0Thanks to the Internet, the\u00a0bad publicity that results\u00a0isn&#8217;t just from the original newscast but from all the other viewings as people forward the link to their friends and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/search?section=all&amp;s=dirty+hotel+glasses\" rel=\"noopener\">Digg<\/a> it, and bloggers like me write about it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And still, nobody from Embassy Suites, Sheraton Suites or the Holiday Inn have called or emailed me to explain\u00a0what they&#8217;ve done as a result of that TV investigation about the unsanitary way they clean the glasses and coffee mugs in guests&#8217; rooms. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have any\u00a0of the trade associations for hotels, by the way,\u00a0responded to this investigation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Publicity Hound Natasha Henry, a writer for the Tower Federal Credit\u00a0Union in\u00a0Laurel, Maryland, for letting me know that the story on dirty hotel glasses, which I wrote\u00a0about\u00a0several weeks ago,\u00a0was featured this morning on\u00a0&#8220;The Steve Harvey Morning Show&#8221; on 96.3 WHUR-FM in Washington, D.C. &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting to see how fast this story is getting\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/dirty-hotel-glasses-story-on-dc-radio-show-today\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[168,29,605],"class_list":{"0":"post-1247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-crisis-communications","8":"tag-media-relations","9":"tag-news-events","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41670,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/41670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}