When the gossip mags are tracking down a rumor about a celebrity, how\u00a0do they know when they’ve struck gold?<\/p>\n
When they\u00a0call the celebrity’s publicist, and\u00a0the publicist says “no comment.”<\/p>\n
O’Dwyer’s Public Relations News,<\/a> which covered<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0panel of celebrity gossip columnists at Dillon’s Lounge in New York recently, quotes Jo Piazza, a columnist for the Daily News<\/a>. She said\u00a0she always tries\u00a0to get the other side of story, and will call a celebrity’s publicist and ask to confirm or deny a rumor.\u00a0It protects the writers legally and makes the difference between whether the story has legs, or dies.\u00a0<\/p>\n “People think we just play off gossip hunches \u2026 we usually have to know who the source is.\u00a0We need to gauge how the publicist responds to it. If they say ‘no comment’, then it’s definitely true.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Just one more reason to never say “no comment.”<\/p>\n Columnists from\u00a0the Village Voice<\/a>, Star Magazine<\/a> and New York Magazine’s<\/a> “The Intelligencer”<\/a> had to say about which celebs get\u00a0media coverage and why.\u00a0And know\u00a0the alternatives\u00a0to saying “no comment.”<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the gossip mags are tracking down a rumor about a celebrity, how\u00a0do they know when they’ve struck gold? When they\u00a0call the celebrity’s publicist, and\u00a0the publicist says “no comment.” O’Dwyer’s Public Relations News, which covered\u00a0a\u00a0panel of celebrity gossip columnists at Dillon’s Lounge in New York recently, quotes Jo Piazza, a columnist for the Daily News.\u2026 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":7,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[168,620,605,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-crisis-communications","8":"tag-how-to-interview","9":"tag-news-events","10":"tag-publicist","11":"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\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40933,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/40933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n