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Originally Posted by Becky
Not that I've seen either. I find it highly doubtful that Jon has a a writer of Forbes magazine or any of the other news agencies that pick up the stories on his payroll. It's simply good journalism to report that the tour did well without Sambora. The expectation was that the tour would be plagued with problems because he left, but it wasn't at all. The only real problems were related to Tico's organs deciding they wanted out. Obviously, if you were writing about the BWC tour being the #1 tour in the world, you would put in the article that it was done without Richie there. That's part of the story. It's not a personal dig at Richie by Jon. I swear some people think Jon has way more power than he does.
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I don't know how much power Jon has but I'm pretty sure that he has connections out the ying yang. And somebody went to the trouble to filter through the Forbes list to find out what Bon Jovi had that wasn't already represented among the first 12 names so Bon Jovi would be the top "something" and fed that to ABC, along with the requisite "even without Sambora" statement. They did the same thing for tbe Rock Rich list and said Jovi topped the list again when there wasn't even a list prior to that.
I wasn't picking on Jon or saying he's evil. I was just pointing out that they're both getting in their digs just like they did while the tour was still going on. And it's okay that he's not perfect. Really, the world won't end because the man's human.
Jon doesn't need a writer at every news outlet to pick up stories. That what he pays a PR staff for. And if you think Jon doesn't have a highly paid and very competent staff who does exactly that kind of thing and then feeds it to the Forbes, the Billboards, and other "random" outlets, you're more naive that I thought you were.
These weren't stories about a #1 BWC tour. They were stories about the other successful artists from
this year and howJovi had fallen from 7th to 13th. Pretty sure ABC didn't jump all over that as a top news story without a nudge from somebody. The BWC tour ended over 6 months ago. The only people who are still talking about it are deranged fans like us. Nobody else gives a rip.
Check out the timing on these little 'non-news' news blurbs and compare them to what's going on with Richie at the time. There's a pattern.
And then, maybe I'm wrong. It's been known to happen.
At any rate, this thread isn't about "Evil Richie vs St. Jon" or "Why is Jon such a jerk when Richie's such a good guy?" Somebody just said they didn't like the way Richie digs at Jon (and I don't either, btw) and all I was saying is he's not the only one who's doing it. Jon, as always, is more subtle when he sticks the knife in. But you can bet that Richie's getting his message, too.