Comments on: ON JUMPING SHARKS: Rachelle Hruska, Tinsley Mortimer, Sarah Palin Building Bridges to Nowhere

By: Scallywag

Scallywag — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:24:36 +0000

Why do Rachelle and Cameron Winklevoss keep pushing the grain?

Now they want to obtain as much info on you as possible. Really as media there is a limit- because after a certain point it becomes invasive and the larger question arises- for whose sake are Guest of a Guest breaching the law once again. Yes once again- the story is below:

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/04/guestofaguest-com-continues-artistic-rip-off-joins-the-social-cia-movement-to-be-a-homing-device-on-your-persona/

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:52:48 +0000

Tia Walker…really??? get over yourself!!

By: Gregory Partanio

Gregory Partanio — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:05:21 +0000

I do not always read what my brother Christopher writes. I just happened to now because I received a phone call last week with someone advising me I was on Television. I turned to Channel 11 but did not see myself (I guess I missed a brief glimpse of myself). What was interesting to me was, I recognized all the people on TV as I have been shooting them for years at different events in and around New York City. Chris gets up my ass for not paying attention to the media, not knowing about this scandal or that scandal, who’s up, who’s down or whatever. The truth is I really don’t care. I just like taking beautiful photos of interesting people. To get wrapped up in melodrama is a waste of my time. It does not pay my bills. Do I read about Obama’s Health care Plan? Sure I do. Do i read about troops killed in Afghanistan? Again, sure I do because I am interested in what is happening to my fellow citizens, especially those who risk their lives on our behalf. Do I watch Kiefer Sutherland on 24 every Monday night? Again, yes I do. Why? Because it’s entertaining. Do I find the CW Show High Society interesting? Absolutely not. I couldn’t believe some of the crap coming out of the mouths of some of these people, but in the long run, do I care? No not at all. I mean if all these self promoters who are selling their souls to be on a reality T.V. show for 15 minutes of Fame (if you can call it that) expect to be taken seriously after the show has been cancelled, I think from a Public Relations standpoint doing this type of show really is detrimental to one’s image. I am surprised that most of these folks have not figured that out as of yet. I have seen many marriages go down the toilet because one of the party’s hunger to seek press to promote themselves not a product or to sell something but just to be out there. So do I care whether Paul Calderon is not really a Johnson & Johnson heir or that he stole a pocket book or that he is living on $25 grand from his mommy, and when that runs out what is he going to do? No I don’t. Do i care that Jules Kirby disrespects housekeepers? Not really. Most of it is hardly believable and is simply bad TV that seems rather scripted to shock and offend. Since it does not affect my bottom line, if it does not make me laugh, I simply ignore it. For me, there is no sense writing about it. Maybe if we all just ignore it, it will all go away, although some how I doubt it. Will any of these people ever become a Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie? Highly unlikely. Much of this reality programming, specifically CW’s High Society is made for less intelligent or less informed people who get sucked in to believing that this truly is the world of “High Society” in New York yet those who I think of as New York’s High Society would not be caught dead on one of these shows. But that hardly matters. In the end, we are all just people; Bill Gates, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt are all just people. That’s the approach that I take when photographing them. Some are, however, just more fortunate, intelligent, pretty, successful or lucky than others. In many respects by focusing their lives on bad reality TV as regular people will always simply be “Building Bridges to Nowhere.” I choose to just live my life and ignore it all. Because in the end what really matters to me most is my family and friends. PEACE.

By: Rachelle Hruska- Did she violate FTC rules? | Scallywag & Vagabond

Rachelle Hruska- Did she violate FTC rules? | Scallywag & Vagabond — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:41:30 +0000

[...] by folks in the Hamptons charity community at The Parrish Art Museum last Summer the curious and disparate treatment accorded to the Paterson & Cuomo Campaign on GuestofaGuest.com around the same time. When you [...]

By: Scallywag

Scallywag — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:57:03 +0000

Wow, very revealing Tia…

By: On Jumping Sharks: Rachelle Hruska, Tinsley Mortimer , Sarah Palin …

On Jumping Sharks: Rachelle Hruska, Tinsley Mortimer , Sarah Palin … — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:45:51 +0000

[...] ‘High Society’ on the CW starring socialite Tinsley Mortimer and an ensemble cast of urban trust fundafarian’s, fauxsocialite’s, criminals, tranny’s and frauds has been one of the most over hyped reality shows. This platform, vehicle or …More [...]

By: Blogger Tia Walker

Blogger Tia Walker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:01:11 +0000

While I prefer your whistle blowing article RACHELLE HRUSKA: Social Journalist or Helping the Scissors Mafia Take Over NYC? your piece above provides grains of truth and I repeat….GRAINS of truth. Tinsley Mortimer like it or not is part of High Society ( the real one that exists here in NYC) the “cast” of characters around her on her show may be questionable but whatever-television is meant for casts, so are films and the stage.

Guest of a Guest and their band of Harvard educated backers are doing what they need to do–it is NOT a crime. The CRIME is in the fact that girls like Rachelle, and I do mean “girls” in that they are devoid of significant work & life experience, ALL want to be at the TOP of the blogging heap with CREDITS they have not yet EARNED. The only way to appear CREDIBLE is to manufacture it all & QUICKLY. Take no prisoners ….emulate whomever you can…. and often times it has been me.

My gripe is not with Rachelle directly. Here is my ONLY gripe, the years that I have spent building both my credentials & The Quest for “it”, it is not simply a lack of recognition for doing so that STINGS but the underlying racial undertones of this GRAND SLIGHT–let’s glorify a young blonde figurehead instead of the industry’s original innovators. Neither myself nor my blog has ever appeared, been interviewed for, cited or mentioned by any major New York publication (The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, NY post etc.) Gawker recently gave me some love–thanks Gawker!!!! Even though The Quest for “it” is an independent RESOURCE for many LARGER online publications and began in September 2005– 2 full years before Guest of a Guest. In part we do first hand reporting of celeb, fashion & society events that most independent blogs cannot event get credentials for. We run with the BIG BOYS we always have.

If I had a dollar for every girl that has come up to me over the last 3 years and said” I want to be a blogger like you ,Tia” I would certainly be wealthy.I run when I hear this. I no longer even say thank you, because they do not mean they want to be LIKE me they mean they want to BE ME & that is a very SCARY& dangerous thing.

You want to be a blogger like me? CARE about your work, LOVE it, do it honestly, work/sleep/& work again, be gracious, be accurate in what you write, WRITE your own SHIT don’t steal it (that goes for content, layout, & concepts) and make sure that your PERSONA is YOURS not a copy of someone else’s (that goes for your clothes, you hair, your style).

Peace!

By: Scallywag

Scallywag — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:06:10 +0000

What a wonderful and thoughtful piece. As an observer of society and media I was increasingly appalled for what I felt was a degenerative descent into a type of ‘journalism’(if we are to even be kind to use this word) that consistently towed the ‘party,’ ‘corporate,’ ‘phony’ elite.

Nothing is challenged, rare is it that any outlet forces critical regard of topics at hand and further investigation only lead to the corrupt apparatus called pay to play, non disclosure journalism.

Ms Hruska and her elk and backers, Gawker and etc have debased the cultural mileiu and have only served to foster apathy, cronyism and what George Orwell termed once – double speak- nothing means anything anymore and yet it supposedly means everything if positioned (paid) correctly.

Congrats Ms Hruska keep making that money and be sure to propagate a debasement of ethics, integrity and anything worthy of genuine reflection, inspiration or enlightenment.

Read below for more-

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/03/rachelle-hruska-media-whoremanipulator-for-hire/