Once again, the PR industry is poised for another black eye with the September prime-time UPN debut of “Sex, Love & Secrets” about a 20-something “conniving” publicist played by Charlie Sheen’s sometimes-ex Denise Richards. It could have been worse. The original show title was “Sex, Lies and Secrets.” I wonder whether all PR people in the eyes of Hollywood are conniving or it’s just all Hollywood PR people?

I find it a bit eery that on the day after I post a photo of News Corp. heir apparent Lachlan Murdoch on this blog (see previous item), he resigns from the company. I better be more judicious about image selection moving forward. Hmmm. On second thought, perhaps an image of Charles Dolan’s son will produce the same effect.

Once again, the scrappy Murdochian NYC tabloid bests the big boys by breaking the billion-dollar blockbuster news of acquisition talks between NBC Universal and Dreamworks SKG. It almost doesn’t matter that the New York Post continues to bleed red (state) ink, the newsroom (and biz staffer Tim Arango) must be pleased as punch today. Even the venerable Wall Street Journal gave credit where credit was due. BTW - I wouldn’t be surprised if that lead came from RM himself, who’s fond of strolling through the newsroom.