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Owen Simon, Westinghouse and Group W PR Executive, Dies at 93 Cynthia Littleton, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Owen Simon, a longtime PR executive for Westinghouse and Group W Productions, died April 2 in Los Angeles. He was 93. Simon was known for his savvy promotional campaigns on behalf of such series as “The Mike Douglas Show” and “The Merv Griffin Show” and other productions from Westinghouse’s Group W Prods. syndication division. Simon was also well-loved in the industry for his kindness and wit. When Simon retired in 1997 after a 40-year career, he told Variety he was looking forward to spending more time with his grandchildren. “With five grandsons, it seems time to start getting them in shape as a basketball team,” he quipped. ....
Tumble, losing 12%. now, we will be talking about facebook and as we do, whenever this topic comes up i ll give you my full disclosure but my wife is a pr executive at facebook so many ways it s very helpful that i am 3000 miles away in new york tonight. i just want to make sure everyone is aware of that. a fellow at the open markets institute set out an aggressive plan for dealing with facebook. he joined me now. matt, thanks for joining us tonight. you wrote a piece setting out a number of measures that you think could be taken to curb facebook s power. i just want to take a few of them and go through them one by one. first, the first point you made was that facebook should be required to sell or spin off the big social networks it bought, instagram and whatsapp. why would that help? thanks for having me. ....
Tumble, losing 12%. now, we will be talking about facebook and as we do, whenever this topic comes up i ll give you my full disclosure but my wife is a pr executive at facebook so many ways it s very helpful that i am 3000 miles away in new york tonight. i just want to make sure everyone is aware of that. a fellow at the open markets institute set out an aggressive plan for dealing with facebook. he joined me now. matt, thanks for joining us tonight. you wrote a piece setting out a number of measures that you think could be taken to curb facebook s power. i just want to take a few of them and go through them one by one. first, the first point you made was that facebook should be required to sell or spin off the big social networks it bought, instagram and whatsapp. why would that help? thanks for having me. ....
you wrote an in-depth article on hope hicks for town and country magazine. it was a fascinating read. that really was based on her life who she is, before this scandal broke. you talk about her being a graduate of, you know, southern methodist university and how she is the daughter of a former nfl, you know, pr executive. she did have some experience in the world of public relations. worked eventually with ivanka trump. but then somehow caught the eye of donald trump. so tell us a little bit about how she became so close to the president, brought in, and then now how she is handling all of this. just been working for ivanka trump s fashion line for a few months when, as you put it, she caught the eye of the president. and she did work on some trump projects so he got to know her. and was just a short while later ....
Debate. a lot of the bannon stuff and what he said about don junior is salacious and interesting, but the core argument of this book is is donald trump fit, competent, well for this office? i made the case yesterday what is difficult for me is donald trump s behavior, bullying, sort of creating a story of his own life that doesn t always comport with the facts, this is nothing new to donald trumps. he has been doing this his whole life. this is a man that impersonated a young pr executive to promote donald trump s coolness to the tabloids. it s not new. i m interested to see what the cases beyond quoting steve bannon saying that something is ....