Allison Williams Defends Her Dad

With Seth Meyers at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Yesterday the New York Observer turned some heads by sharing a publicist’s request: no journalists attending a Michael Kors event could ask spokesperson Allison Williams about recent events involving her father Brian.

Friend of the site Peter Himler of Flatiron Communications riffed on that theme, writing:

“…I always believed that the primary onus is on the interviewee to deftly deflect a question he or she does not wish to answer. And there are many tried and true techniques for doing so…”

The reason for the request, as it turns out, was that Williams was waiting for an event at New York’s 92nd Street Y to defend her dad.

NBC’s Brian Stelter was there, as was Merrill Knox of our sister site TVNewser (which Stelter founded, in case you needed further proof that New York media circles are small).

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