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| Lizzie Grubman |
Grubman PR is the employer of Lizzie who heads a staff of 30, including Liz Cohen, Jessica Meisels, Brenda Loutheray; daughter of Allen Grubman - the biggest music industry attorney in New York (see below in lawyers section), Elizabeth Grubman is the biggest publicist in the music industry and has been very successful in promoting musicians including jazz musician/record producer Quincy Jones; Lizzie has worked for many R&B, soul, rap, and hip-hop artists; Lizzie has worked on numerous charities to help children worldwide such as these: Pearl S. Buck International, Jacob's Cure, Heineken Foundation.
Comment: Lizzie Grubman has always been a very kind, professional, hard working person and I don't think she would do anything on purpose to hurt anybody. As tragic as this accident is, it is totally and completely irrelevant to everyone's lives and the media coverage is outrageously out of proportion to its significance. People who live in the Hamptons have a real serious problem - a contaminated ground-water site; that means cancer causing toxins such as Arsenic are in their drinking water, but the media ignores such things as that. The water in the Hamptons is polluted with chemicals. Read this article: Why Cancer Rates in the Hamptons Are So High. Read this article that says "... it was revealed that the New York State Cancer Registry data showed shockingly high breast and prostate cancer incidence rates in eastern Suffolk County ...": Radiation: From Bikini Island to Long Island. Those multi-millionaire mansions are practically on a toxic nuclear wasteland. Lizzie Grubman's mother was another victim of cancer.
The Hamptons are the neighborhoods of the wealthy first American families. Conscience Point is the spot where some of the first English settlers landed in America. The "old money" became wealthy by being here "first", kicking the Native American Indians off their land (getting the US Army to kill them off), claiming ownership of that land, and then charging rent to everybody else that came afterwards. That's how the "old money" rich became rich - their great great great grandparents TOOK the land and became "the establishment." If the land a family dynasty claimed had oil or minerals on it, then that made them even wealthier. The rich kids who invade The Hamptons during the summer are the "new money" and the "old money" hates the idea that the "new money" is encroaching on their turf. Lizzie Grubman's clients included people who work in the entertainment industry, African Americans and other people. Lizzie Grubman held charity baseball games in Hampton’s public parks with gangsta rap stars. Some of her clients liked The Hamptons so much, they decided to move there. How do you think the "old money" liked that?
The Southampton officials tried hard to shut down the Conscience Point club (a nominal sacrifice because they won't touch the other revenue generating cash cow clubs) to show they are actually "doing something" while they are doing nothing about the poisoned drinking water, the much larger problem. The NY Daily News and NY Post reporters have a mean grudge against her because she would not let them into the private parties she has organized (for clients); Lizzie's parties are run by and paid for by the clients - clients determine the location and guest list.
Some people have felt snubbed and insulted by Lizzie because she would not let them into the parties she organized for her clients. Her clients, not her, make the guest lists. Parties are planned weeks ahead of time, guests must RSVP. Catering is planned for those that RSVP'ed. The caterers add an extra charge for every uninvited party crasher. Since the party is already budgeted, that charge comes out of Lizzie's profit. Do you think it is fair for anybody off the street to crash YOUR party? Then why do the reporters think they have a right to crash her organized parties uninvited, and then be indignant when they aren't let in? Her work is client-driven client-based. Would you let anybody that wanted to, anybody off the street, to invite themselves into your house parties? Does the company you work for let anybody off the street into their parties? No, obviously not. When she is stopping uninvited party crashers, she is doing her job.
Both newspapers have printed false and misleading articles on her such as a story on how a client, the Conscience Point Inn, had "fired" her when actually that client is keeping her employed; those newspapers never print retractions. NY Daily News and NY Post reporters harassed all of her clients, threatening to print articles which name them and trying to somehow connect them to the accident; the NY Post was successful in "persuading" David Sarner of Cabana restaurant at the Capri hotel in Southampton to fire her - so they now had a "new story" to run the newspaper - more grist for their mill. NY Daily News and NY Post reporters are manufacturing a "controversy" when the majority of the people have never heard of her, don't care about the accident, and don't see the relevance of the accident to their daily lives. But those reporters are creating a "crisis" and manufacturing the illusion that the public cares about this.
This is very disturbing because if those newspapers can manufacture a controversy out of such a trivial matter (to the mainstream), then how much of everything else they report on is legitimate news or is even true at all? NY Daily News and NY Post reporters are actually "camped out" in cars outside her apartment and workplace, are following her everywhere she goes, are questioning everyone she knows or has talked to, and are harassing her on the streets - if any other person did this they would be called "stalkers." Photographers curse at her with foul language to get her to look up at the cameras with an angry look on her face, and then they use those pictures in the newspapers, after using Photoshop to "wash out" her appearance. NY Daily News and NY Post reporters continually "play" the angle that she made a racist insult while these reporters simultaneously use a racist term "Jewish American princess" ("princess" for short, but the meaning is understood) in all their articles and the reporters pretend not to notice that she is "white" (whatever that means). The NY Post gave away one of their photos to someone who created a sick online "game", offensively called the "Lizzie Grubman game" or "white trash game."
The media is exploiting the tragedy of the accident to distract the public from the real news that affects everyone's lives. Campaign finance reform was killed in Congress recently, genetically modified food labeling was killed in Congress, health care reform was killed, and the media ignores massive protests against globalization and war. There have been a lot more people being beaten and shot while protesting globalization and war than were hurt in the Hamptons accident. The mainstream media purposely ignores these important issues at the crucial times when they were being debated and is using the story on this accident to distract and manipulate the public.
During the exact same time that Lizzie Grubman had her accident, FOX NEWS anchor Shepard Smith was also involved in car accident. Lizzie Grubman is only known to people in the fashion and entertainment industry in New York and Miami whereas Shepard Smith is an internationally known news anchor for FOX NEWS. There was a "news blackout" on Shepard Smith's accident and a "media circus" overkill on Lizzie Grubman's accident. The news media's blatant unbalanced unfairness in covering these car accidents demonstrates how phony the news media really is.
NY Daily News and NY Post reporters tryed to scapegoat her for all of NY's social and economic problems by "playing" the on the publics' "hot buttons" on race, social and economic problems, class envy, old money vs. new money wealth, and they are trying to turn this tragedy into a "product" they can commodify, package, and sell to the public. NY Daily News and NY Post reporters encouraged a group of protestors at private party the reporters mistakenly thought Lizzie had organized. The tabloid media was/is "inventing" the news by staging events/confrontations. The tabloid news seems to be trying to encourage stalkers to harass, terrorize and threaten her. She has been continually harassed so much that she has had to hire bodyguards. For a "hot story" on a tragic accident, the NY Daily News and NY Post reporters sadistically have turned her life into one of constant fear. NY Post have turned the victims' plight into a joke by promoting a contest to give away a Mercedes SUV as a "Lizziemobile" and driving it around the Hamptons as a promotional device for the NY Post - an excuse to keep the story "hot" in the media every day when they have nothing new to report. Those tabloids pretend to care about the people hurt, but they have not run any articles on any of them, obviously their only purpose is to bash and humiliate Lizzie. Local ABC TV station in NY has exploited this story shamefully. The NY Daily News and NY Post reporters are exploiting "schadenfreude" (sadistic pleasure at the misfortune of others) and are making their newspapers and media look cruel and sadistic to the rest of the world. The media can't even pronounce her name correctly which is pronounced like the word "groove" (or worse, they purposely mispronounce her name to sounds more like "grub" to associate her with the word "grubby" which insults her ethnicity).
The tabloids were trying to demonize and vilify her to manipulate the public into hating her. This story is so irrelevant to peoples' lives. The tabloids try to manipulate the public to hating her for receiving so much unwarranted attention; they overexpose her then they bash her for being overexposed. The interviewers pretend to be her friend in long interviews, then select out of context statements to make her look bad. Just like Rush Limbaugh and Art Bell's anti-government propaganda encouraged the Oklahoma City bombers, NY Daily News and NY Post reporters are encouraging some kind of violence against her. In the USA, people are innocent until proven guilty, while in the media, people are guilty until proven innocent.
During the exact same time the NY media was going nuts over trying to bash Lizzie, various politicians and appointed officials were trying to warn the public about terrorist attacks. The public should have been more aware of those terrorist threats but the media grossly failed to do their jobs and keep the public informed. When 9-11 happened, the public was caught completely off guard. People stayed inside the twin towers because they were unaware that what was happening was a terrorist attack. On the day 9-11 happened, the news media had anti-Lizzie Grubman bashfests instead of John Ashcroft's warnings. The news media was so engrossed in tabloid crap that the news media was no longer capable of giving the public real news. The news media in their stupidity failed the public.
I AM NOT commenting on the accident because I was not there. I am only talking about HOW the media has covered this. Read real news instead of tabloid crap. Don't let the media turn you into a "sheep." The "mainstream" media outlets outright refuse to cover real news events that effect peoples' lives and instead distract the public with irrelevant crap news. I urge you to turn your backs on the crap the tabloid media is selling and bookmark all the real news websites I've linked to below.
Examine all the links below. The real news websites listed below tell you news that the tabloid media refuses to report. Bookmark the links to the real news websites below.
The corporate news media does not believe in the concept "the truth." Believing in "the truth" and the concept of "the truth" are enlightened "Liberal" ideals which the corporate elite and their corporate lackeys woefully disdain. The corporate masters believe in authority and power above all else, facts notwithstanding. The corporate masters do not believe in the concepts of "the real world", "reality" and "facts." They believe their world consists of the people that matter to them, themselves and their friends they socialize with, and everybody else is peasant labor or surplus population. They believe that "the truth" is nothing more than popular opinion which they can control by controlling "the narrative".
First you must differentiate the news medias. There are three kinds of news medias relative to each country. There is independent news media which is independent from corporate ownership. There is foreign news media which is less susceptible to control from domestic politics. And there is corporate news media which is owned by wealthy individuals and large corporations and are used by their owners to push their corporate agendas. The corporate news media defines the issues, frames the debates, and shills the agendas of the wealthy establishment and corporate cartels. The corporate news media is fomenting a society where the only people who are entitled to the benefits of the society's wealth are the owners of corporations. The corporate news media reduces civic discourse to the superficiality of personality politics. The corporate news media wants to "control the narrative", control the "mass culture zeitgeist", control the "political landscape", rewrite history, and control "popular opinion" and they do so by "framing the debate" thereby creating "false dichotomies."
Examine all the links below this commentary and quotes. The real news websites listed below tell you the news that the tabloid corporate-media refuses to report. Bookmark the links to the real news websites below and check them frequently. Tell your friends about the BBC, Air America Radio, PBS NOW show, and these other news websites because they tell you the real news, not the corporate-media think-tank paid-pundit spun-propaganda "faux news" the USA based news networks spew. Even though the BBC News has been neutered somewhat after the former heads of the BBC, Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke, refused to apologize for telling the truth and were forced to resign, the BBC is still better than USA based corporate news. It is up to you to decide to find the truth about the world for yourself. I don't list the names of these websites so you can find out what they are as you search for the truth. USA based corporate-news-media-networks have been so increasingly deceptive and manipulative that the more educated people in this country and many people in the rest of the world think of USA based news networks as illegitimate and not credible. The amount of unsavory deceit, duplicity, complicity, and manipulation by USA based corporate-news-networks is abominable. As soon as you go on the internet to read how foreign journalists cover the same events, you immediately become aware of the fact that USA based news networks have a "unique" spin on the world (to put it mildly). The majority of Americans get their news from the network news services and they have been making choices based on the USA based news networks' duplicitous propaganda. Americans who live in "the Midwest" don't have access to alternative news sources and have been manipulated by the corporate-media to believe in lies that would shock Americans who live in the big cities. American "mainstream" news media is owned by a small group of wealthy individuals who use the news media to promote their corporate agendas. These wealthy individuals socialize with their peers who have the same backgrounds (same neighborhoods, colleges, fraternities, prep schools, private schools, etc.,) at their elite social institutions (rich white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men only clubs) and set the political agendas for the rest of society. In the business world these businessmen are at each others' throats, but in politics, they form cartels to work for their class' interests. Through their subsidized think-tanks, they funnel huge campaign contributions to the political parties to control the politicians. Through their media outlets, these wealthy individuals frame the national dialogue. The media cartel serves their masters. The TV news medias support only politicians who can raise the most money from the corporate-think-tanks who will in turn use that money to buy TV advertising. The TV news medias only cover politicians who can afford to buy lots of expensive TV advertising. The "mainstream" news medias shun all politicians who cannot buy lots of expensive advertising. The wealthy individuals control the journalists by employing them at their media outlets and by bribing them through their think-tanks; think-tanks bribe journalists with hundreds of thousands of dollars for private speaking engagements (some of these speaking engagements are actually junkets - expensive paid vacations where the journalists don't actually have to speak). Corporate-mainstream-network journalists who don't "play ball" and tow the party line get cut off from the trough, get demoted, or just fired and blackballed. For the corporate-mainstream-network journalists who do "play ball" with the corporate-think-tanks, there is a revolving door of employment between corporate-mainstream-network news outlets, think-tanks, kickback jobs as "image consultants" and "message consultants", and even official political-patronage "advisement" appointments in government. For the politicians that "play ball" with the corporate-think-tanks, there is a revolving door of employment between political offices (won in elections or gained via partisan appointments, political-patronage), think-tanks, and seats on board of directors for front/shell corporations that exist from government contracts. The issues that concern the publics' interests are shut out of the mainstream political dialogue. Some of these wealthy individuals not only have the interests of their corporations ahead of the publics' interests, they have the interests of foreign countries ahead of the publics' interests. This cabalistic society is like a mythical Chimera (mythical creature that had one body and many heads) for those dissenters who speak up against the cabal will be shouted down and smeared by surrogate paid-media-pundits superficially coming from many separate media channels but all saying the same think-tank-prescribed "talking points". The cabal's paid-pundits in the media never substantiate their claims, they just harass dissenters with ad hominem attacks and straw man arguments (see the logical fallacies links below). The political parties work to socialize corporations' costs, risks, and cleanup while privatizing profits. The public subsidizes big business' research and development, pays for big business' liability, and pays for cleaning up the messes caused by big business' byproducts, pollution, and environmental degradation. Coporations use the media and politicians to shift the burden of economic risk from corporations and the government onto the backs of the average citizen. Partisan politics is a means in itself, a business that functions as a clearing house for corporate interests. Political party conventions are farces designed to patronize the ideologues, but the candidates themselves are oblivious to their own parties' "platforms" and are sometimes outright contemptuous of their hard core members. The corporate-mainstream-news-media is the mouthpiece of the corporations. The corporate-news-mainstream-media fools as many people (as necessary to "decide" elections) into believing that their anointed political parties' candidates have the publics' interests. The political parties hire pollsters and political consultants who can measure what the public cares about, and then semantically modify their pitch to manipulate the public into believing that the politicians are going to do what the people want when the politicians are going to do exactly the opposite. The most manipulated and lied to citizens live in the Midwest and "swing states" that "decide" elections; the media gives them different news from the rest of America.
The corporate-news-mainstream-media are liars, professional liars at that who are contemptuous to democracy, democratic ideals, and the publics' interests. The newscasters who've risen to the top got there by being the most backstabbing manipulative players who screwed over everyone else who competed against them. The people in the news business are quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of people. The only reason why they keep their jobs is their ability to lie, manipulate, and appear sincere when they are lying. Corporate-news-mainstream-media newsreaders wear poker faces and lie without any qualms, compunction, and penitence. Corporate-news-mainstream-media newsreaders are pretentious sanctimonious disingenuous people who put on airs of superiority and infallibility and are able to feign indignation, feign sincerity, and pretend to care. Foreign news sources and domestic independent USA news sources frequently use verifiable facts to contradict almost everything shilled by USA based news networks. USA based "mainstream" corporate-news have lost so much credibility that it has become a joke. In American news media, the punditocracy's pack journalism is the standard norm. Instead of giving the public real news, USA based "mainstream" corporate-news shills tabloid news that panders to the media "market bias" of the day. The media cartel tries to turn the public into passive consumers instead of active citizens. The media is full of partisan hacks/pundits, who push corporate mythology, push corporate talking points, frame the debates in terms the corporate politicos want, and shut out all political dissent from the national dialogue. The partisan hacks act as opinion molders by being surrogates for the political parties and lobbyists; the politicians themselves will remain "clean" from making attacks because the surrogate partisan hacks/pundits in the corporate media will do that dirty campaign work for them. Corporate politicos can never convince people to vote against their own economic self-interests, so instead they campaign to trick the people. Since corporate politicos can't offer logical rational arguments to people, they go for irrational illogical arguments. Corporate politicos poll the people to find out what are the most decisive "hot button"/wedge issues and then create vitriolic aggressive campaigns using false information to unfairly smear their opponents. The corporate news media goes along with the corporate politicos by shilling disinformation to the public, not refuting blatantly false disinformation, and shutting out all dissenting voices, all the while disingenuously pretending to be unbiased news. People in foreign countries look at Americans with dismay, like we've been brainwashed by corporate PR. Most Americans are totally oblivious to the geopolitical consequences of their actions because the corporate media doesn't want the public to know what geopolitics is. The American public is sheltered from the truth about the world that foreign people are aware of. Ignorance is bliss and the real news you'll read below is disturbing. I've met people who never read the news and they live perfectly happy, and I've met people who care about humanity and the truth and are frustrated and depressed; but the former are dupes while the latter are the wiser. You can go on believing the disinformation the USA based news networks shill and live in ignorance, or you can read these websites to start finding out the truth. The choice is yours.
Although tens of thousands of working people came to protest George Bush and his suspiciously-named "free trade" economic policies; they were invariably smeared by the corporate media as "Leftists" or "radicals"; eliminating the possibility that they were simply concerned citizens participating in the democratic process. This is the familiar tactic of the media to marginalize ordinary people whose interests don't correspond to those of the ruling elite.
"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you're accountable."
- Arundhati Roy
"Throughout the annals of political science -- or at least the annals of Internet history -- there's been an unwritten law: Elections are won by whomever devises the best way to cheat."
- Lou Cabron
"The press isn't quite as biased and liberal. They're actually conservative sometimes"
- William Kristol, Fox News neocon pundit, CNN's "Reliable Sources", 2000
"I admit it, The whole idea of the 'liberal media' was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
- William Kristol, Fox News neocon pundit, The New Yorker, 5/22/95
"Every great cause evolves into a movement, then into a business, and then it degenerates into a racket."
- Eric Hoffer, (I've seen many different arrangements of this quote)
"A defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence."
- George Will, right-wing columnist, "Realistic words would be welcome on Iraq", 3/3/06
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
- Maj. General Smedly Butler
"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."
- Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
- Doctor Who, fictional character, "Face of Evil"
"These are globetrotting sorts who are world citizens, and see the USA as merely a state within the world collective. Don't let those ... accents and folksy mannerisms fool you, they do not have an allegiance to this country; they live in the BIG picture, and are not fettered by borders, boundaries or oceanic barriers."
- anonymous web poster
"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
- Leo Rosten, Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations
"The fact is, there is no other way to strip a population of it's liberties than to make them fear living without a certain level of protection. Anyone calling us Truth seekers crack pots, or tin foil hats are either too lazy to research, look and listen to what is plainly presented in front of them, or two, are so caught up in the fake reality we are pushed to believe that anything outside of that is just too uncomfortable for them. Reality is always darker than fiction. You also have to understand, we aren't dealing with groups of people like you or myself. We are dealing with people who think and feel differently than we do. The powerful elite don't look at the rest of us the same way we view eachother. We aren't equals to them. We don't all deserve the same liberties or benefits of life. To them, we are pawns in their game for further growth of their power and wealth. Too many people in this country have their Eyes Wide Shut."
- Jason Appleton
"You got a lotta nerve / To say you are my friend / When I was down / You just stood there grinning /
You got a lotta nerve / To say you got a helping hand to lend / You just want to be on / The side that's winning"
- Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
- Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
"Mankind cannot take too much reality."
- TS Eliot
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
"Once you accept another person's authority, you become a different person. You are concerned with how well you follow out your orders, rather than whether it is right or wrong."
- Dr. Thomas Blass
"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. Everything else is publicity."
- Lord Northcliffe
"There is no good and evil; there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
- JK Rowling, "Harry Potter", character Quirrell
"Man seizes, abandons, but then commits again the errors that flatter him."
- Antoine Lavoisier
"Propaganda, is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
- Noam Chomsky, Media Control, read everything you can by this author
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
- Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Politics is about getting outside of yourself and your own problems for a little while and fully immersing yourself in the lies and deceit of others."
- Stephen Elliott, "Happy Baby"
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
- CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
- Bertrand Russell
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers"
- Thomas Pynchon said (in Gravity's Rainbow)
Pundit Gallery |
Andrea Mitchell |
Brit Hume |
Chris Wallace |
Katty Kay |
Lizzie Grubman |
Maria Quiban |
Martine Dennis |
Mishal Husain |
Shepard Smith |
Tavis Smiley |
Tim Russert |
Tony Snow |
Young Republicans |
Zeinab Badawi |