With so many celebrities pushing for space in the media it seems that there are those who are going to increasingly bizarre lengths to get noticed. 

In a week that has seen Taylor Swift dancing with a swastika-sporting young man (he said it was supposed to be a cross that got altered through the evening - yeah right!) and Puffy being spotted on a balcony with his baby mother, Kim Porter, T-Pain sporting a t-shirt showing an Internet leaked shot of Cassie sans clothing and even the Roc turning on each other as Beanie Sigel took shots at Jay-Z, it gets increasingly difficult to see what is a publicity stunt and what is real...

Of course there is no such thing as negative press - or at least if there is it can easily be spun around to something else.  The danger is in getting no press.  This is something that sources have reported LeToya Luckett is facing as Matthew Knowles is alleged to have been paying DJs to block her airplay in an effort to protect the status of Beyonce.  True or not, this tactic has backfired as the story has given some more publicity to LeToya and her single.  It seems that sometimes you can't win for trying.

The fact also seems that people don't want to hear too much good news as gossip sites seem quick to jump on the slightest negativity but few reported the opening of Mary J. Blige's Center for Women in Yonkers (we did!).  Still, you have to give the people what they want - even if it might just be dramatized and set-up to get the press baying.  Which reminds me - have you ever noticed how some 'reality TV shows' have a disclaimer saying that some scenes are for dramtic purposes only.  Does that mean they are set-up, staged and acted by the supposed 'reality stars?'  Like Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - it makes you wonder...

Slim (Managing Editor – Grind Mode Media LLC)

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