Russell Brand, a hollywood movie star from the movie Get Him To The Greek, recently blogged about the riots in London. I only stumbled on this from watching the Young Turks news station on YouTube where they praised his blog as insightful and getting to the heart of the issue.
After reading his blog I have to say, Hollywood stars please let your PR people re-write your blog entries so that people understand what the heck you are saying. I have no clue why the Young Turks found his comments insightful.
Brand's entry is filled with confusing statements, like this contradictory statement:
As you have by now surely noticed, I don’t know enough about politics to ponder a solution and my hands are sticky with blood money from representing corporate interests through film, television and commercials, venerating, through my endorsements and celebrity, products and a lifestyle that contributes to the alienation of an increasingly dissatisfied underclass. But I know, as we all intuitively know that the solution is all around us and it isn’t political, it is spiritual. Gandhi said “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
What?!! You are telling people to 'be the change you want to see' while at the same time saying your 'hands are sticky with blood money'?
In other parts it's utterly nonsensical:
This week’s riots are sad and frightening and if I have by virtue of my temporary displacement forgone the right to speak about the behaviour of my countrymen then this is gonna be irksome, I mean even David Cameron came back from his holiday. Eventually. The Tuscan truffles lost their succulence when the breaking glass became too loud to ignore. Then dopey ol’ Boris came cycling back into the London clutter with his spun gold hair and his spun shit logic as it became apparent that the holiday was over.
Yes, if you read what he wrote three times it will make sense, but who wants to read something three times to understand what the heck is being said.
I can only imagine this is what it must be like for publishers that have to read through manuscripts of novice writers who think the more verbose they are the better their writing is (which is almost never the case).
Simple rule for celebrity bloggers, if it's not something you'd say in a conversation in real life, then it's not something you should be writing.
In fact, as much as I think blogging is a great way to build your brand and connect with your audience, if you can't write in a way that people easily understand what you are saying, then do a video blog instead.
I'll give it to Charlie Sheen on this one, he's totally unintelligable, but at least with video it's interesting to watch.
After reading his blog I have to say, Hollywood stars please let your PR people re-write your blog entries so that people understand what the heck you are saying. I have no clue why the Young Turks found his comments insightful.
Brand's entry is filled with confusing statements, like this contradictory statement:
As you have by now surely noticed, I don’t know enough about politics to ponder a solution and my hands are sticky with blood money from representing corporate interests through film, television and commercials, venerating, through my endorsements and celebrity, products and a lifestyle that contributes to the alienation of an increasingly dissatisfied underclass. But I know, as we all intuitively know that the solution is all around us and it isn’t political, it is spiritual. Gandhi said “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
What?!! You are telling people to 'be the change you want to see' while at the same time saying your 'hands are sticky with blood money'?
In other parts it's utterly nonsensical:
This week’s riots are sad and frightening and if I have by virtue of my temporary displacement forgone the right to speak about the behaviour of my countrymen then this is gonna be irksome, I mean even David Cameron came back from his holiday. Eventually. The Tuscan truffles lost their succulence when the breaking glass became too loud to ignore. Then dopey ol’ Boris came cycling back into the London clutter with his spun gold hair and his spun shit logic as it became apparent that the holiday was over.
Yes, if you read what he wrote three times it will make sense, but who wants to read something three times to understand what the heck is being said.
I can only imagine this is what it must be like for publishers that have to read through manuscripts of novice writers who think the more verbose they are the better their writing is (which is almost never the case).
Simple rule for celebrity bloggers, if it's not something you'd say in a conversation in real life, then it's not something you should be writing.
In fact, as much as I think blogging is a great way to build your brand and connect with your audience, if you can't write in a way that people easily understand what you are saying, then do a video blog instead.
I'll give it to Charlie Sheen on this one, he's totally unintelligable, but at least with video it's interesting to watch.
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