GOP activist DePass apologizes after joking on Facebook that gorilla is related to Michelle Obama A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla. (NYDN)
Robert Fitzgerald Joins GlobalHue as Executive Vice President – Media Director Advertising Age’s #1 African American (#4 Hispanic) advertising agency in the nation, GlobalHue, recently appointed international advertising and marketing expert Robert Fitzgerald as their Executive Vice President – Media Director. (BlackWeb2.0)
Barack Obama and the White House woo The New York Times Where George W. Bush’s team made a show of not caring about the Times, aides in this White House treat the paper with a deference that James Reston himself would have appreciated. (Politico)
Another Hour Filled: Carlos Watson Gets 11am Slot on MSNBC First on TVNewser: Carlos Watson, who officially joined MSNBC as a dayside anchor in March, will be the host of the 11amET hour. (Mediabistro)
Obama half brother, George Obama, working on book A memoir by George Obama, the president’s half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama — 20 years apart in age — did not grow up together and did not meet as children. (AP)
