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28.11.07

Miranda Kerr v. Paris Hilton: this happened in 2005, not 2007 

[Cross-posted] Quite a few people will have caught the gossip that Miranda Kerr, the Australian model, was upset when Paris Hilton waltzed in to a Heatherette show in 2005 and chose a pink dress that Kerr was scheduled to wear on the catwalk. The organizers obliged and Kerr decided she would leave the matter to karma. Karma delivered in the form of Naomi Campbell, who wanted the same outfit, and Hilton was given the same treatment as it was reassigned to the supermodel.
   I caught the item on Channel 9 (Australia) this morning, two years after the incident (this is news?). And according to one report, the source was not the Murdoch Press or even Reuter, but Kerr’s own blog.
   In fact, nearly everyone is reporting this as an incident that happened at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show earlier this month.
   If Kerr’s blog had been the source, I was all prepared to note how blogs can be the source of news for the MSM. This presupposes that the news itself is reasonably trivial—I have noticed through experience that some “journalists” (and vain bloggers) cannot handle irony or humour more sophisticated than a fart gag. Good manners prevent me from naming them publicly.
   But as I read about Kerr posting in the ’sphere, could I find links to her official blog to double-check the article? No. Not even the places that say she blogged the item linked it.
   The reason is that I don’t think Miranda Kerr has a personal blog, at least not one that can be readily found.
   So rather than this post being about the growth of the blogosphere as a news source, it’s turning into one about gross misreporting.
   The only place that seemed to have cited and linked the correct source is Sassybella, naming Pedestrian.tv:



   I applaud Helen at Sassybella for getting her facts right and for being the only journalist (that I have found) to point out that this was a two-year-old incident—something lost on a lot of (re-)reporters this week, including the Murdoch Press.
   I also applaud my friends at Heatherette. Richie and co. could have gotten publicity out of the incident but they chose to stay mum about such matters.
   Conclusion: the blogosphere and MSM are becoming closer and closer. The good bloggers getting their facts right are few and far between, and there seem to be fewer journalists upholding traditional standards among the mainstream media. This has become a news item that has been broadcast on TV and appeared online, with everyone but Sassybella (based on my searches) getting the show and date wrong. And getting the time and place wrong is just plain negligent for a journalist.

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yeah good call jack. spot on. the bloggosphere is obessed with trivial crap.

i actually caught this story in the interview with (brisbane girl) Miranda back then on pedestrian tv (a free street press distributed on dvd's that i subscribed to) and it was such a trivial thing that you'd have missed it if it if you'd blinked.

it's funny that it's being dug up again now as a new story. maybe it's because back when the interview was conducted Miranda was a relative nobody (barely the face of portmans), and now she's a Victoria's secret model?  
I reckon you are right, Mark. The media know that having her name or Paris’s name will get people noticing and as far as newspapers are concerned, they might sell a few extra copies (hence it was p. 2 in the Australian Daily Telegraph), and to heck with the facts. A sad story. The Pedestrian.tv blog has a ‘What the?’ entry because even A Current Affair had been calling, apparently!  
I can confirm that Miranda Kerr has a blog which she doesn't update much.  
And the URL is? I did say that if she did have a blog, it wasn’t readily found, plus I doubt that her blog was the source of this news item.  
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