Sarah Palin’s Fame Game
as always, Paris Hilton will play the role of “control”
There are lots of ways to put this, but most simply, she didn’t have one, or a little less simply, she wasn’t aware that she was playing a game at all. Had the imminent spotlight been on her mind, maybe she wouldn’t have been taped posing questions about the vice presidency we asked the first or fine, maybe second time, we recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
An ill-managed Fame Game does not, however, affect exposure; in many cases, it increases exposure. After all, every grizzly head, glamour shot, bloody caribou, and pregnant teenager carries with it an inherent number of media attention points. So that’s nice. More US-based internet search traffic than Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Michael Phelps and Barack Obama combined! The question, of course, for Ms. Palin becomes whether she can detract from the ridiculousness and redirect the attention towards the overarching mission of her beliefs to one day become richer, less gift in our laps blog fodder. It’s a lesson in quality over quantity and in sustaining after the spike.
Step # 1. Lose the banana clip. And from there? …
