New Statesman Review

The Fame Formula: How Hollywood’s Fixers, Fakers and Star Makers Created the Celebrity Industry
Mark Borkowski Sidgwick & Jackson, 391pp, £16.99

I have no idea what publicists call journalists in private, but I can reveal that we hacks refer to our promotional colleagues as “PR scum”. Now that Nick Davies has exposed the gullible and corrupt nature of contemporary journalism in his scaremongering work Flat Earth News, we might need to adjust our address.

http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2008/08/gerard-degroot-decade-history