Chris Brown Hires PR, But Will It Help?

Facebook faces a major user backlash over its terms of service and founder Mark Zuckerberg responds via blog post within 24 hours. Twitter announces $35m in funding and co-founder Biz Stone responds to our emails within 10 minutes.

Yet R&B singer Chris Brown gets into a major altercation with girlfriend Rihanna just hours before last week’s Grammy Awards and it takes him one week to issue a generic written statement?

Apparently it came at the hands of an experienced flack, Mike Sitrick of Sitrick & Company, who reportedly charges $700 an hour and has represented the likes of Paris Hilton, Halle Berry and Rush Limbaugh.

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