Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vito Glazers, Kanye West, and Michael Avenatti are profiled as Top Newjackers of 2018
Newsjacking is the method (some refer to it an art) of making a controversial statement in an individual’s or brand’s voice about a trending topic in the media, in order to attract attention and create media coverage, therefore highjacking, or “newsjacking” the trending topic onto yourself or your brand.
Donald Trump is the undisputed king of being able to get the media to write about him or do whatever he wants. Other celebrities who frequently used this style of generating publicity successfully last year included Elon Musk, Kanye West and Michael Avenatti. A newcomer to that list is Vito Glazers.
Vito Glazers is an entrepreneur and media personality who is no stranger to being in front of the cameras or behind the scenes. His company, One World Publishing, has helped more than 100 prominent individuals make headlines around the world. Last year he became the go-to mastermind for anybody trying to make the news, as he has the art of newsjacking down to a science.
Glazers and his work in media have been recently profiled in this BuzzFeed article, read the full story here:
On Saturday March 25th, I had the honor of helping run a unique production; filming and live streaming a meeting between Dad’s Rights attorney Jeffery #DADSRIGHTS Leving and Illinois State Represenative LaShawn Ford, the sponsor behind Illinois House Bill 4113. Known on social media as #HB4113, this house bill is a crucial bill to equalizing the playing field for fathers in Illinois. You can learn more about how #HB4113 will save children’s lives, and could have prevented the death of a 9 month old baby girl last Christmas by watching an interview with attorney Jeffery Leving that we recorded together in January.
The most recent meeting and interview between Leving and Ford was hosted, produced and moderated by Radio Maha on Power 92.3 FM Chicago, and phones were ringing off the hook in support of #HB4113 as there is a sweeping movement across the country and in Illinois of people demanding changes to unfair parenting court standards that disproportionately favor women. The majority of our population agrees that the unequal treatment of fathers in parenting court and a flawed child support distribution system is systematically contributing to the mass incarceration of (primarily) African American fathers. However, fathers of all races are affected by this war on men. Last Thanksgiving a suburban Illinois father of 3, caucasian, committed suicide in his jail cell after a judge repeatedly sent him to prison for not being able to afford nearly $20,000 per month in child support and alimony payments.
The live interview between Leving and Ford lasted a little more than one hour, and you can watch the recording of the live stream below:
A few days after the event at Power 92.3, I had the honor of meeting with Representative Ford for lunch at the Soho House in Chicago where we had an interesting lunch and a long conversation. We had a strong discussion about parenting laws and the broken nature of Illinois’ family court system. I told him I felt that the mistreatment of fathers in America is the biggest social injustice of our generation, and that parenting courts treat fathers as guilty until proven innocent.
We talked about many of the issues facing Illinois and America today. Most interestingly, I feel we both agreed that although we come from very different backgrounds, we are both seeking the same thing: to give and be a voice to people who feel unheard. This was not the first time we had the opportunity to discuss important issues. Below you can tune into a clip from a Chicago press conference Rep. Ford hosted and which I had the honor of speaking at, which was broadcast by NPR:
La Shawn represents primarily African American communities in Illinois 8th District on Chicago’s West side who feel unheard, and I have a following on social media of primarily white, male, Right-wing Trump supporters who also feel overlooked and unheard. There could not be two sides more different, yet there were so many things that we felt the same about. We agreed that there can be no progress until both sides learn to communicate without falling into the divisive trap that our media, and in my opinion, our government, has created and profits from.
La Shawn and I discussed the possibility of co-hosting a Podcast dedicated to discussing issues facing families in America, with the goal being to set an example for how civilized discussions should be held between individuals with opposing views, to actually make progress on the issues that face our society.
Would you tune in, listen and subscribe? Any suggestions of what the show should be called? We would love to hear from you. If you would like to be kept up to date on when the Podcast will be released, and message us your feedback, please subscribe to my Newsletter here: https://www.facebook.com/VitoGlazers/app/100265896690345/
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
To support equal rights for parents, please join the Illinois Fathers For Equality Facebook Group HERE
Wives, grandmothers, sisters and all women who understand the importance of putting our children’s needs first, please join the Women of Illinois Fathers For Equality Facebook Group HERE
In 2016 I started using Facebook Live as a platform to talk about my political views which have always been that people with business experience should hypothetically be able to run a government better than politicians who have no financial experience whatsoever. When Donald Trump announced that he was going to run for President, I never thought he would make it past the primaries, but I wanted to support the one person who was running in the primaries who actually had business experience. The majority of my peers are millenials who were born in the United States who live pretty entitled lives, so they pretty much all supported Bernie Sanders for President. Since I have lived in various countries around the world and have a multi cultural group of business associated, acquaintances, family and friends, I am typically the only one of my peers who has first hand knowledge and perspective of the damage the socialism does to the countries where the people give up all their freedom and power to the government in hopes of the government taking care of them. Venezuela, Greece, and so many other countries will show you what a disaster socialism is, but sheltered Americans tend to not be able to think outside whatever propaganda the media is force feeding them. As I did more and more video blogs on Facebook Live supporting Trump, I started getting a lot of virality and attention on the topic and realized the narrative the media was perpetuating about Donald Trump not being popular was completely “Fake News.”
As my Facebook Live Vlog began to grow by thousands of followers per week, I was contacted by CBS News Chicago to give commentary on Donald Trump’s rally that was to be held in Chicago at the UIC Pavilion. I was planning on attending and covering the event live. The first interview with CBS was with Brad Edwards in May of 2016 and aired locally on CBS News Chicago. Here is a link to the clip:
Vito Glazers interview about Donald Trump with Brad Edwards – CBS News Chicago
A year went by, Donald Trump secured the Republication nomination, then was elected President. My audience on the live streams continued to grow. In January of 2017, I was contacted by a producer from CBS who asked me if I was interested in helping them with a story they were doing on Trump’s controversial Immigration Ban. It seemed like although Trump had a lot of supporters, enough to win the presidency, that none wanted to publicly support him and the policies they voted for. This was probably out of fear of retaliation from liberals. I was excited and grateful to support the President I voted for and agreed to come in to do the interview. I was surprised how fair and balanced Dean Reynolds was. Mr. Reynolds was the award winning journalist who conducted the interview. In my opinion, CBS did an excellent job representing both sides of the debate. Below is a link to the full interview:
To my surprise, I began receiving phone calls from friends all over the country. I originally thought the news piece was only going to air locally, but apparently it was used as a piece on CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley which airs nationwide. I began receiving many positive tweets and social media messages from Trump supporters applauding the courage it took to go on television and support our President, and also began receiving many negative, trolling and threatening tweets and messages from liberals. The link was posted on the front page of the CBS News website and was a trending topic on Facebook and Twitter. I am grateful for all the support from family and friends and to CBS for the opportunity to comment on the work President Trump is doing for America.
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