Kurtz: Who is Strumpette?
Howard Kurtz writes in The Washington Post Who Is Strumpette?.
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She describes her new blog as “A Naked Journal of the PR Business,” and includes a naked (if carefully posed) photo.
She calls herself Strumpette . And plenty of smart people are trying to figure out who she is, especially after reading her bio. Under the name Amanda Chapel, it says: “I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications . . . I am 5′ 4″ tall, athletic, Pantene shoulder-length black hair, perfect perky boobs. I present well and am most accomodating. I’ve slept with clients. I sleep with my boss. I am the consummate PR strumpette. “With a mix of industry news, gossip, criticism and sex items, Strumpette.com sprinkles high-toned dissections of the flaws and foibles of the PR business with personal insults and the occasional expletive. Strumpette’s posts are quite pugnacious, under such headlines as “PR Mega-Firm’s CEO Caught in Big Lie,” “Exposing the Communist Blogifesto” and “Word-of-Mouth Marketing: Viagra for the PR Business.”
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A Washington Post investigation (okay, a couple of e-mails) yielded responses from a person claiming to be “Amanda,” who said: “We are a little (a lot) shy when it comes to interviews.”
We ? She says Strumpette now has four collaborators — three other women and a “token male.” One is a “dear friend,” one a “colleague” and the other two she says she met through the blog. But after talking it over with her collaborators, the e-mail says, they have decided to keep their identities secret.
If you have not checked out Strumpette, you are missing some clever (if VERY snarky) writing.