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14 comments:
I'm not surprised at your influence. You're an amazing woman.
If it weren't for the evidence, I would think you were completely delusional. It's hard to believe such a whacky blog has achieved this. At thevery least, I hope these people are getting a laugh.
Random House is probably pissed at her again. I wonder if she mentioned the PPD in Wiped? Probably not. They were really pissed when she failed to mention in Knocked Up that she'd fallen in love with another guy while pregnant with the Dictator but then sold a piece to the New York Times, after the book came out, describing the affair in detail.
That's the trouble when you make stuff up, I guess.
my fave is when people here talk like they know rebecca's life...like they were in the room with random house discussing how "pissed" they are at rebecca for whatever reason. the funniest thing is how we all know it's rebecca eckler. does anyone else here give their first and last name? um no. at least she's putting herself out there - maybe foolishly, but still. so alison - what's your full name? what's your full story? put it out there and you too will get criticized. and then feel what it's like. kudos to eckler to put herself out there as a target. lord knows none of us have balls that big.
Whatever, AnonymASS. I happen to know one of the publicists who was at Random House when Knocked Up came out so that's where I get my information.
As for my real name -- I don't have a blog and I don't claim to be an authority on motherhood or anything else and I don't spend my time publicly bullshitting people. So I feel no need to put my real name out there.
What's yours, by the way?
First of all, I have no idea who Alison is and if anything she says is true or not. Should it be true -- and I emphasize the should -- then I have zero sympathy for Random House. You know the expression, screw me once, shame on you but screw me twice, shame on me.
All I can say is that if I were the publisher of a "non-fiction" book and I saw that the author had published starkly different accounts of her own reality, I would be ringing her up for a talk because I would not want to be caught in a James Frey/truthiness situation.
And if I were the editor of a newspaper and learned that all the happy-talk newspaper columns we'd published by a certain writer were all a lie and that the writer really had PPD, I wouldn't be too pleased either.
So someone here is getting screwed be it the National Post or Random House.
Finally I resent the implication that just because I'm anonymous I'm not taking risks. Is there a Mummy Blogger out there who has the U.S. department of Justice on her case? Or Dr. Oetker's Toronto lawyers monitoring their blogs? Or some stalkerish unfaithful husband sending them e-mails all the time?I don't think so.
Just because I'm modest about my identity doesn't mean I'm not putting it all out there.
Let me get this straight. By AnonymASS's always bizarre reasoning, because Eckler so bravely "puts herself out there," it's okay that she lies? Hmmmm ... what an interesting concept. If there's a byline attached to it, it's okay that you've made it up. I guess it would be okay if she was a plagiarist, too, because she has such "big balls" and so courageously puts herself "out there."
If only Janet Cook and Stephen Glass had thought of that argument! Sure, I made it all up, but aren't I brave for attaching my name to my lies?
"Whacky blog" and here I am thinking I'm learning stuff and connecting with other humans. At the very least, I'm learning not to trust the non-fiction written word and always check the source, do your homework, research, etc.
Thanks for the honourable mention RTK.
oh um my god!! like you asshoels are going to get me in trouble with my publishers and like i am a famous book author you know! and um i can lie about um anything i want too!!! your just jealous@!!!!
p.s. except anonymASS. she's not just jealous. she has like a crush on me! and like so she um should! i am hot!!!!!
First time commenter here. I went and read that controversial NIne Pound Dictator article and I noticed Rebecca ends by saying "Spank Me."
This is an obvious cry for help. She wants to be caught.
I saw something similar on America's Most Wanted. Some mega criminal signed up for a TV reality show and that's how the FBI caught him.
You don't do this kind of stuff unless you want people to discover the real you and spank you good and hard.
Ooh, baby
okay - so you don't like eckler, and no one here is super fond of me either, fine. no probs. but are you really going to equate/relate eckler's actions to that of "some mega criminal"? i mean, really. yes she contradicts herself. sure this is probably not the first time. no i don't subscribe to her mothering ways. HOWEVER, if i hated her so much (which i don't) i wouldn't resolve to picking on her. i would just stop reading her/talking about her. the nit-picking and eyeballing to seek out all her faults is a little too mean girl/bullyish. and we get to equating her here to america's most wanted, um, well that's just not fair. if you think she's horrible, then please stop blogging about her here/drawing attention to her here etc etc. otherwise we're just breeding hate and that's just um wrong/weird/sad. thus, i kindly withdraw my nomination of 'knocked up' from the bookclub read list. does this make you happier now? when you smile and are happy, you look younger anyways.
oh, and one more thing - reject: i don't think you shoudl be resentful at all. what i'm trying to do is draw attention to eckler's strong points here, which people forget/glaze over because she's in the so-called public eye. i.e. the fact that she puts herself 'out there' is brave, i think. i also think she's a human with thoughts and feelings too. i also know she's not perfect, and frankly i saw her once, and i think she is as human as they get and i truly believe she KNOWS she's human/not perfect. really. believe what you want from who you want i.e. publisher whoever. but she's still a warmblooded person in the end. in any case, sure as shit she is going to make mistakes and make an ass of herself along the way. that's what sucks about the 'public eye'. regardles of this, WHO CARES! if you don't like dont' read her. don't point out someone's flaws - that just sucks. i don't care if she's famous or whatever, pointing out these flaws super sucks. be happy be nice be kind. try anyways. or just be...anonymASS. ha ha ha. don't be resentful. it will give you cancer.
Look anonymASS, this is one of those situations where we are just going to have to agree to disagree.
Whenever I blog about RE, you think it's mean. And usually, it is mean. But I think it's fine to be mean because of reasons I have already blogged about ad nauseam. You on the other hand follow the "if you can't think of anything nice to say..." doctrine.
We're probably never going to agree on this one so go give us your insights on Crocs given that you're something of a shoe expert.
And don't think we hate you either. You're a former COW. Our comments sections wouldn't be the same withou you!
I'm hurt that you're calling me a slaker. It's my wife who's the stalker and who visits your blog constantly even though she has banned your IP address from visiting her boring blog.
I haven't sent any e-mails. I suspect it's my wife and her crazy sister who have hacked into my e-mail account and are harrassing you.
Please accept my apologies.
I am going to leave my wife as soon as the summer ends.
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