George Clooney is an advertising executive's wet dream. He's launched an anti-stalking campaign against Gawker.com and it's new feature of tracking "live" sightings of celebrities in New York, by commanding folks to "spam" the website with emails of "false" sightings.
As a result, the website reports it was flooded with emails - hundreds of them in fact - almost all of which were fake sightings ... of George Clooney!
The plan not only backfired, the free publicity for gawker and the rush of new visitors should be a boon to their advertising revenue. DOH! [Smacks self in head.] Why didn't we think of that? If you didn't know about THE MAP until reading this, well here it is, at gawker stalker.
The Clooneython email campaign started on Friday when His Arrogant Smugness instructed his publicist Stan Rosenfield to put forth his evil plan to other publicists. Not even the genius creators of "Suth Park" could have thought of this!
"There is a simple way to render these guys useless," Clooney said in the message. "Flood their Web site with bogus sightings. Get your clients to get 10 friends to text in fake sightings of any number of stars. A couple hundred conflicting sightings and this Web site is worthless. No need to try to create new laws to restrict free speech. Just make them useless. That's the fun of it. And then sit back and enjoy the ride," Clooney writes, signing the note, "Thanks, George.".....
In turn, Gawker began yesterday to publish as many of the fake Clooney sightings as they could.
Most savvy gossip site readers already know many of the posted "star sightings" at gawker stalker are not real, in fact, many entries are posted by staffers. I mean, how many times can you read about Paris Hilton coming out of an NY club when she's on the other side of the ocean, at Cannes in front of 300 photographers, at that exact moment?
Rosenfield said he did not know how the e-mail, which was intended as private, was publicly released and reported on Friday by the New York Post.
