Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The latest news on the social media saga of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has resulted in a new blog she published today on her official blog, where she states that she wants to retract and correct some errors that she had communicated on her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
She lists two major errors where she acknowledges that producer Ann Lopez does have a college degree (Lopez graduated from SMU) and that the character of Sara from The Dirty Girls Social Club was “not technically being raped; rather, she is resisting and then reluctantly submitting to sex with her husband, who tells her she should have expected such demands when she married “a hot-blooded Cuban.”
Valdes-Rodriguez continues with the following statement from the blog:
My objections to the draft pilot adaptation of my book were not intended and should not be construed as personal attacks upon the persons of Ann Lopez, Lynnette Ramirez and Luisa Leschin. I optioned the rights to my novel to Encanto Enterprises because I was impressed by these three women’s collected track record in Hollywood and I trusted them to adapt my work respectfully and with me as a consultant on all major changes.
She closes her blog with the following:
In light of this, I have removed from my blog, Facebook and Twitter account any statement that might be construed as defamatory toward Ann Lopez, Lynnette Ramirez and Luisa Leschin.
A current search of her Facebook Profile confirms her actions, since the statement posted yesterday is no longer publicly available. The same goes for her Twitter Profile.
We did manage to see one tweet that had appeared on January 5 around 11pm EST, but is no longer on Valdes’ Twitter stream:
Although Valdes-Rodriguez’s tweets have been deleted from her stream, this does not include any retweets that others shared with their respective streams, nor has there been any request to this blog to remove examples of what Valdes-Rodriguez shared with her network from December 23 until December 31. For examples of what she shared, you can visit these posts on our site:
- “Please Respect NBC” Statement
- “Dirty Girls” Blogs and Tweets Deleted
- Valdes-Rodriguez Keeps Tweeting and Posting
- Report: Valdes-Rodriguez to “Focus on the Legal Aspects”
- Report: CAA Quits on Valdes-Rodriguez
- The Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Backlash?
- Social Media and Author Valdes-Rodriguez
- NBC Lawyers to Valdes-Rodriguez: “Cease and Desist”
- Perez Hilton and the Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Saga
- Latino Racism: Hollywood and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Valdes-Rodriguez has had a rather tumultuous few weeks, having been very vocal and public about her dissatisfaction and alleged claims that the TV script adaptation of The Dirty Girls Social Club was “racist and sexist.” Several comments on our blog have brought up her previous web history of similar incidents where she has utilized the Internet to stir controversy. In the meantime, Valdes, in her interview with Latina.com, confirmed that she lost her Creative Arts Agency agent and fired her literary agent. She also hinted at the fact that lawyers are talking.
Word of the day for Alisa “CONSISTENT”. Par for the course Alisa posted “Correction and Retraction” on her website stating that “Some errors unintentionally appeared in posts on this blog and on my Facebook and Twitter accounts in recent weeks and in the spirit of fairness I wish to retract and correct them.” Not sure how it was unintentional when she was the person posting the information. She goes on to say, “I have removed from my blog, Facebook and Twitter account any statement that might be construed as defamatory” Alisa perhaps the word for tomorrow should be “APOLOGY”. You owe your readers, everyone who supported you on this issue and most of the three ladies you defamed an APOLOGY! Perhaps someone should use social media to start a campaign to boycott you until you APOLOGIZE! Read Alisa’s “Correction and Retraction” on her blog at: http://alisavaldes.wordpress.com/
Latina hopefully you will get a chance to speak with Ann Lopez so she can set the record straight. At the very least you should run an article highlighting all of Ann’s professional and personal accomplishments including all her charity work for the Kidney Foundation and children who suffer from kidney disease.
We just reported this today.
Wow! Alisa’s critics had said her pattern was to attack and then retract, and that’s exactly what she did. The tone of her blog sounds like her lawyer was at her side. I’m sure this was necessary if the other side is considering any legal action against her. So, I understand why she wrote it, but–come on–to write that her objections “were not intended and should not be construed as personal attacks upon the persons of Ann Lopez, Lynnette Ramirez and Luisa Leschin” is outrageous. The posts from both Alisa and her critics throughout this saga were, in fact, attacks and often personal. To say they were not is simply untrue.
The social media frenzy was pretty heated, there is no doubt there. No matter what your opinion is on this, AVR went on the social media pulpit and effectively shared her message to people. In the end, all these new developments indicate to us, and we are just speculating, that the negotiation has begun to see if a more positive resolution can be reached. My own blogger opinion is this: admire someone for defending their work, but social media is a public forum that is still trackable, searchable, and more importantly public. It has its pros (rallying your network around your message) but it also has its cons (comments can be recorded, screen images can be captured, and there could be consequences).
Thanks again for commenting.
How can you say “she effectively shared her message to the people” when she had to recant her comments to the “people” and in the process got a cease and desist letter from NBC and lost two agents? Also there is no negotiation…she was given another cease and desist letter and had to issue a statement because she was wrong. That is not a negotiation that is running away with your tail between your legs. Effective is not a word that should be used with what AVR did..Tragic because she made a fool of herself but absolutely not effective.
FYI, I have tried to post comments on her blog and facebook and mysteriously they leave sites very quickly..AVR does edit comments that don’t agree with her.
Susan, a few things about this post that I want to add, but first thanks so much for posting and commenting: yes, there is a history of commenting deleting from AVR from her blogs. Some bloggers have that policy, other bloggers, like me, don’t, since I think that is the way to go.
I really believe AVR was effective in her use of social media because she wouldn’t have gotten the cease and desist letter from NBC if she didn’t start blogging about it and using social media. Raul Ramos’ comment makes a good point about this. Your opinion about it being “tragic” is how you view it. I was only saying that the decision to use social media was “effective.” I agree that the consequences could be viewed as “tragic.”
The theory that NBC told her that she had to delete, recant, and correct all her comments is still a plausible one in my view. Why could not that be part of a deal? You retract everything and make nice and maybe, just maybe, we might consider your input into this script. Do I know for a fact that this is happening? No, it is just pure speculation but it is certainly a better scenario than one suggested by another reader that this entire situation was a three-way plan concocted by NBC, Encanto, and AVR to get more publicity for the show.
As for Ann Lopez, Luisa Leschin, and Lynetter Ramirez, I did post background information about them and like I said in that post, their backgrounds are impressive.
Thanks again for ALL your comments here!
Julio, I agree. be passionate, but at the same time, think and take a few deep breaths before you blog.
It is a tough balance, but in the end, did AVR get NBC and Encanto back to the table? I am speculating that yes, and like she told us last week in the first interview she gave, that was her main objective.
Julio, you really kill me! “Back to the the table”…who told you that? Did you ever speak or hear from NBC or Encanto directly? You’re naive to think they weren’t on the same page all along. Of course they were…any producers worth their salt were writing the script just as the network had requested. Their only objective in all this was to stop AVR from destoying the prioject and I assume quickly realized her following is so small that it wasn’t damaging at this point. NBC may have problems with the script because 90% of pilots just aren’t good enough to get made. However, NBC’s problems I can promise you aren’t racism, homophobia, ethnicity changes to characters, etc. AVR’s main objective being to get them back to the table? I think when she began personally attacking Leschin, Ramirez and Lopez she didn’t have any other objective than to spew lies and hate. She’s a cyber bully, over and over again!!! Her Latina Magazine QA was quite possibly more damaging to her than Lopez or the project. It shows her lack of professionalism, lack of business sense and again her objective to lash out personally at Lopez. My question now is why did you take it upon yourself to aid a cyber bully in her ATTEMPTS to destroy three professional Latinas with solid track records? One being a fellow writer. I said I wouldn’t return to your blog but I did want to see if you had the cajones to at least print the retraction and apologize yourself for spreading the attacks made by a clear cyber bully. I see you didn’t. Also, you think social media has any bearing on the inner workings of Hollywood? Think again…if it’s not in Varierty, HR or Nikki Finke’s blog it isn’t irrelevant. Nobody heard about this outside of a few hundred people and literally may be all the comments, mine included, add up to 1000. It’s takes hundred of thousands before social media is working to effect any change. I guess it was self serving for you…you were able to post links on bigger blogs and get more traffic on your blog than usual. Good luck with that!
Are you privvy to the negotiations or are you speculating yourself? If you are privvy to the negotiations, will you be sharing this or are you just speculating like everyone else?
Also, you say I am just posting links to other blogs. Just for the record, I am the only blog on the web who has actual physical and visual evidence of what AVR tweeted out and posted on her sites. In fact, both LatinHeat and Racialicious used these blog reports as corroborating sources. You can’t find any of these tweets or posts anywhere else.
Where in any of the blog reports did I say that I supported Valdes? You obvisouly have not read the reports from the very beginning. I said we supported her use of social media to get her message and guess what, we were the first blog to actually include information about Leschin and Lopez.
I just reported what was being sent out on the Internet. You can say what you want about social media and it not being effective, but in my opinion, this is not massive change we are talking about, since everyone who thinks they know social media thinks it needs to be a big ripple to affect something. Big point: social media is not a PR-driven Hollywood campaign, which I might add, Hollywood does a very poor job at controlling. You would think by now they would own social media as a medium, but they don’t. Fact: AVR tweeted her disappointment, got support from others, then was told to delete her blogs and retract her statements. I really find it hard to believe that this was some Hollywood three card monty trick orchestrated by NBC and Encanto.
As for my own blog, I have plenty of readers and I am perfectly happy with the traffic I get, with and without this story. What you think is self-serving is just my responsibility as a blogger to share what I discover.
¡Gracias mil! Thanks for your comments!
Thanks again for commenting, I do appreciate it.
And Lisa, for the record, check the Alexa rating for this blog. Not bad for someone who doesn’t know what he is doing. It really doesn’t matter to me whether you visit here or not, you can read whatever you want (but thanks for the visits). But as someone who believes in never editing people’s comments, you really don’t even know me and who I am, as much as I don’t know you. My only point for this entire series of posts was to see how social media can be used and abused.
Julio, I suggest you distance yourself from Alisa. This woman cannot and should not be trusted. It’s clear from her “correction” that she manipulated and twisted the facts to suit her needs, but showed little regard for Ann Lopez and her associates. I think NBC and Encanto should just drop this project.
Oh, and if you need proof that Alisa is capable of being untruthful and unethical, then you should read this:
http://www.afterellen.com/2009/2/visibility-matters
Karen, thanks for your comment. We have read that afterellen piece several times and it has been linked here already more than once. BTW, since when am I taking sides? My readers have expressed interest in this story and I have reported it to the best of my abilities as a blogger journalist. Just wondering if you have read all the previous blogs where I present a pretty detailed picture of what was tweeted, commented on, and posted? Also, why would other reputable organizations cite my blogs unsolicited? From what I udnerstand, AVR has a lawyer who is advising her. I have never met AVR, nor do I know her personally. My only contact has been with her PUBLIC stream on social media. I will say this again: Was she savvy enough to use social media to share her message? Yes. Did it get personal? Yes. Did some people see it as unprofessional? Yes (just read the comments from my readers here in previous posts). Did you see the actual comments I shared that were critical of Valdes? Read them and get back to me when you do?
This is an open forum and I never edit comments, but before making generalizations like the one you share her, I ask if you can read all the posts and all that I have reported. If you are suggesting that I am part of the AVR camp, that is so far from the truth. I am just blogger journalist giving my readers what they asked me to share with them.
Karen, I read Alisa’s retraction, and I noticed that she only retracted one thing that she wrote about the pilot script, the part about one of the characters being raped.
I guess everything else she said about the script was TRUE. The part about Lauren being an unemployed, drunk living in a residential motel, the fat, sassy black friend whose pint-sized boyfried Juan is in her mumu, the sign on the dorm room door, etc.
And if Ann Lopez and company are willing to depict Latinas in this manner just to make some money, then what kind of people are they?
And if this was no big deal, and hardly anybody reads Alisa’s blog/Twitter/Facebook, then why did they force her to issue a retraction? Obviously it was a big enough deal for them to sick their lawyers on her.
I think the root of the problem is that Alisa did not negotiate a contract that guaranteed her some creative control. I doubt she even negotiated anything at all. For someone her age, with her level of education, it’s inexcusable that she gave so much power to Ann Lopez. It’s not Ann who has the ideas. It’s Alisa.
Thanks so much for posting here and visiting the site again. I agree with you about the other parts of the script, totally forgot about that in trying to answer the comments today. Also, yes, if no one in Hollywood is reading AVR’s blog or coverage of this story on other blogs, why the retraction and deletion of tweets and posts? Social media matters as a quick way to communicate a message.
To Lisa, I agree with some of of your points. Mainly I think AVR did as much damage to herself as to anyone else involved and I’m not impressed with her unprofessional manner. I followed this story because I think it speaks to the importance of knowing your rights before you sign a contract and how important creative control is to an author.
However, while I did feel Julio leaned toward AVR’s side (which he has the right to do, this is his personal blog after all), he did make efforts to get statements from the others involved and posted positive, truthful information about them. And his take on this from the beginning has been about the effect of social media in today’s world. AVR did drum up attention for her situation (whether it was truly necessary, is another debate). Obviously her posts had a big enough effect that she was forced to take them down. If NBC and Hollywood didn’t care, they would have ignored her completely and left her posts alone. Also, if this story really doesn’t matter to you, why are you commenting here with such anger? I don’t understand why you are so upset about this story or the posts here. Your reaction seems a bit unwarranted in my opinion.
Thanks, Danielle, for commenting. As always, much appreciated.
Hi Julio, I didn’t mean to suggest that you are in the AVR camp. I honestly thought that you were unfamiliar with Alisa’s history. My intention was to warn you about her. But it appears that you did your homework. I understand that your goal was to focus on the impact of social media, but, after reading your posts, your coverage certainly favors Alisa quite a bit. IMHO, you’ve (unintentionally) helped her spread her hateful comments about Ann Lopez.
Thanks, Julio, for addressing my comment. I wish you continued success. Keep blogging. We appreciate it.
Karen, thanks so much for that kind comment. I really appreciate the tone and respect and I respect anyone here who takes the time to read my page and comment.
Just so you know, I really tried to connect with Encanto, NBC, CAA and others, but I got no response, and I wasn’t expecting it, but I tried.
I cannot expect readers to read into how I write, blog, or report. I just report it, add commentary when I feel it’s important. I think when I used words like “alleged” and “allegedly” and “claims,” I was trying to bring my reporter skills.
The real issue for me here is that social media can impact opinion and it doesn’t need to be done on a large scale. I admired AVR for using it, but could have been done more professionally? I let the readers decide that, I just know I wouldn’t have handled it the same way.
I guess when I added and included all the negative criticisms about AVR on my blog posts that were being said, I thought I was trying to paint as full a picture as possible of what was happening in real time, which is how social media can feel some times.
Thanks again for your comments!
Best,
Julio
I have interviewed Ann Lopez, Lucia Luchin, Lynette Ramirez, and Alisa Valdes for Herald De Paris, they are all very talented people who have been placed in a complicated situation. It’s sad when things come to this, Tommy Smith in the 1968 Oylimpics once said” Run, Jump or Shuffle, it’s all the same when you do it for the man”. Siding with Alisa on the stereotyping issue, has cost me a few good friends.
http://www.Heralddparis.com
Sorry to hear that, Dr. Al. I did read your interviews for Herald De Paris and had cross-linked that. Time heals everything, in my opinion.
Julio,
I finally had a chance to read your blog. I am, of course, fascinated by the heated, social media debate regarding AVR. I had the opportunity to hear her read and talk about her upcoming projects several years ago. Frankly, I was impressed by her commitment to create strong, Latina characters in her books. Even back then, she knew it was not going to be an easy process. I often wondered if AVR had fared well with her endeavor. Keep in mind, when I saw her it was years before social media.
I am glad social media has become an important medium for writers and their audiences. Any writer who can stand up for her/his work is worth following.
Gracias,
M.Miranda Maloney
We are happy you made it! Next time you show up I would love to blog about what Mouthpress does and publishes. But in the meantime, yes, no one can question that social media can become an effective tool for writers.
Could Alisa have made her point without getting personal? Perhaps. On the other hand, no one can deny her angry words got attention. A kinder, gentler blog might have been easier to ignore.
Alisa evened the balance of power which was heavily weighted against her using social media. She got some very powerful people to listen.
I don’t know what was in Alisa’s mind or her motives. But I do know this. The core of her complaints were just.
Raul, you make a good point about the power of social media. There is this misperception out there that social media has to be BIG in terms of reaching millions before there is an impact. I argue, and so do many others, that the most effective use of social media is to nurture and connect with your immediate world, your tribe, as Seth Blogin says. AVR did just that and if it wasn’t so effective then why did events change so suddenly? A lot to ponder about this issue and about the pros and cons of social media.
Julio, when you say “events changed so suddenly,” what do you mean? Has NBC fired Lopez and her team and brought Alisa on as the screenwriter? Is she any closer to getting a more faithful adaptation on TV?
From what I can tell, the only thing Alisa has accomplished by rallying her troops is losing her Hollywood agent, parting ways with her literary agent, posting “retractions and corrections” and leaving a bad taste in many mouths. Not sure that’s a social-media “win.”
I meant that it went from a loud social media pulpit to deleted erasers, posts, retractions and corrections. Nope, I did not say that AVR was brought on as a writer. But it is pretty clear from the tone of the last few blogs that lawyers involved, statements got made, and there is a suggestion that a dialogue is occurring among lawyers. Also, the only agent AVR has lost is her CAA agent, she still has a literary agent. Again, I am not defending her actions about what she said and posted (still trying to see where I said that what she was posting and tweeting was professional), but I am saying that in this day and age social media as a tool to share a message can be effective. Some of the comments on this blog would disagree. The one thing I would have done if I were Encanto was to just post a statement via social media earlier in the story. Believe me, they would have gotten support from influential social media types in the Latino blogosphere. Instead, they allowed the story to become all about AVR.
Now the lawyers are talking. Fun.
Thanks for your comments and for visiting my page.
Julio, you took comments that AVR made as true.They were not. She lied about the script. She was going off an old version of the script and not what was turned into NBC. Scripts change. The comments that she made about the script are not true because it is not the final draft that NBC will be working from. Now if the new draft gets made she will say “oh they made changes because of me” which is not true. She was never privy to the final script.
Where social media becomes dangerous is when you get someone who is speaking with authority on a subject they are not versed in. AVR doesn’t know how the television business works or the process a script goes through before it gets made into a pilot. She made this whole hoopla over a draft not the final script. Ignorance breeds ignorance and on the internet somehow becomes fact.
AVR painted herself as a victim, she is not. She signed a contract and then says she didn’t understand it. It is HER responsibility to know what she signed…instead she attacks Lopez and says she was lied to and mislead. So many of her comments are preposterous if you are in the industry… she says she was promised final script approval etc..no one gets that. Maybe Steven Spielberg but not someone at AVR’s level. She says NBC wanted her as the writer..she is not a network approved writer.
I think what I fault you for as a blogger is having done your research you saw this is one messed up chick that has a history of cyber bulling. Her personal attacks were soooo clearly cyber bullying and you repeated them in the name of “reporting a story”. Did you label the comments as cyber bullying and inappropriate? Or did you let them stand as AVR gospel? I really don’t know. I only saw a few of your blogs.
Also AVR fired her literary agent because she was sent an email by mistake from her literary agent to her CAA agent. In the email the literary agent made a comment about AVR that she took offense to and fired her.
The damage that AVR has done is to herself. She is obviously a very self destructive person.
As for Ann Lopez and Luisa Leschin and Lynnette Ramirez, they handled this with professionalism and will continue to do the work that they do. Nothing has changed for them.
DGSC may get made or it may not. The odds are against ANY project. So few pilots get made and fewer picked up as series. But the decision will have nothing to do with AVR or her cyber debacle.
I did not take comments that she stated as being true, that is your perception of how you view the posts, and I can’t control how readers think. I say “allegedly” and “claims” and also posted visual evidence of what she said. And yes, AVR did delete comments from her blog. As a blogger, to me, that is an issue. I don’t delete or edit reader comments and I believe strongly in that.
When this is all said and done, I am going to provide my own commentary about this, although I have already posted one piece called: The Pros and Cons of Social Media. This is what I said in part of the blog:
“Being public has its problems. Now everybody knows what you are doing, and there is a public trail of information that can be traced. Social media can get frenetic as you push your message across, and that could also reveal too much. You could say things you regretted saying, and run a greater risk of getting criticized or called out on something. That puts you in a cycle of constantly responding and adds to the time commitment factor. It could also hurt your online reputation.
With that said, I think that Valdes-Rodriguez is a fighter, and is someone who has passion, conviction, and stands for what she believes in, whether you agree with it or not.
The other pro of social media? With so many topics and options inundating you each day online, you also have the option to not listen to any specific message. That could be a pro for you, but a con for the person trying to communicating that message.
However, just like different flavors of ice cream, there is always another story to follow and there will always be another person to follow. Social media will never grow stale, because it is still organic and diverse. We all have the choice to do whatever we want or say whatever we want, understanding that there are consequences. Such is life.”
Also, her history of “cyber bullying” is well documented in the backlash post I wrote and allowed others to share. In fact, AVR took the time to leave rather lengthy posts about that on this blog. Readers can decide how to judge that.
I still question the strategy that Lopez, Leschin, and Ramirez took by not saying anything on social media circles.
She said on Latina.com that she’s also lost her literary agent:
Is it true that the Creative Artists Agency—who also represents Ann Lopez—has dropped you as a client?
Yes. That’s part of what my lawyer, he’s going to ask Ann for damages because of that. It’s clearly retaliatory. The agent was nervous that I would blog about any of it, and she found it distasteful and dropped me. She’s a TV and film agent—she’s not my literary agent. Although I did lose my literary agent because she accidentally sent me an e-mail for someone else about me, about all of this—that was very insulting. I know people think I’m crazy, but it’s not just a book. This
CAA was representing her for TV adaptation of her book KINDRED. CAA is not her literary agent, just a TV/film agent in this case.The story does not say that CAA is a lit agent. AVR still has a lit agent, and is still under contract with HarperCollins for KINDRED. Thanks for posti again.
Read the second part of the quote. She also lost her literary agent.
I did and will be revising the blog post. Thanks for noting it!
And I don’t think Encanto had much to gain by commenting publicly. They only people they need to influence are NBC executives, not the public. Pilots aren’t picked up “American Idol” style — it’s all about what the executives, and the advertisers, think will work. Their silence made them look professional and classy in comparison.
I agree that AVR got her message out effectively, but to what end? Is it a social media victory if everyone knows what you think, but you end up doing your career (not to mention the careers of other ‘outsiders’ who’d like to take their work to Hollywood) more harm than good? Again, the only “important people” who we can guess are listening are the lawyers who’ve urged/forced her to take her potentially defamatory blog posts and tweets down.
I disagree with that. Encanto missed an opportunity to diffuse this. That is my opinion so let’s agree to disagree and I saw that with all the respect in the world. New media isn’t old media. But you make good points. Thanks again, Lupe!
Perhaps Encanto was asked by NBC not to comment and allow them to take the lead. You don’t know what legally they were allowed to do. In the end, they are not damaged but AVR is.
I agree with that assessment, Susan. But I also think NBC and Encanto still see social media as a PR forum of old media. It is not. Several of my readers, in fact, the majority of them, think the story was too one-sided and I assure you that if NBC or Encanto actually tweeted and said something like: There are two sides to every story and we prefer to keep our comments private, since that is the appropriate course of action in a professional setting or something to that type of logical, people would have welcomed it. That is my opinion. Instead, AVR controlled the message for a week, and for those who don’t think it made an impact, the comments were shared with some of the most influential Latino bloggers out there who get visits and have a large readership base.
This is such a fascinating story. A case study in the pros and cons of social media.
Julio, I don’t think Encanto or NBCs refusal to issue any statements has anything to do with devaluing social media, but everything to do with not wanting to give Alisa Valdes Rodriguez unwarranted attention. Ann Lopez doesn’t owe her a statement, or anything else. She only has to abide by what is in the option contract.
I still think Lopez missed a good opportunity to respond via social media, I respect it. Still a lost opportunity. I think AVR is getting attention though social media and word is that she will be major outlets later this week, but that is unconfirmed. If social media is so undervalued, AVR did an effective job in using it and getting some traction in the story, I think. Her latest blog and apology/statement/manifesto is quite telling. If people think social media is so undervalued, why hire such a high-powered Hollywood attorney to make her stop posting and tweeting about it?
And thanks again for all your comments here!
Again, Alisa said herself that she no longer has a literary agent. Here is the quote from Latina.com:
“Although I did lose my literary agent because she accidentally sent me an e-mail for someone else about me, about all of this—that was very insulting.”
http://latina.com/entertainment/tv/author-alisa-valdes-rodriguez-im-sick-seeing-latinas-powerless-sluts#comments
You are right. Sorry about that. I missed that one. Cool of you to post that. Will adjust the post a bit to reflect this as well. Thanks!
Julio
No worries. There’s a lot of moving pieces to this story. 🙂
And I appreciate you maintaining an archive of what AVR was blogging and tweeting before she pulled her usual stunt and made it all go bye-bye. This is a fascinating story with a lot of interesting elements (creative control, the use of social media, the permanency of blogs and tweets), and I, for one, am going to be very interested to watch it play out over the long term and see what the impact will be on Alisa and Encanto’s careers.
Rule #1 of Social Media Blogging: Always take screen shots of public streams. To be honest with you, once you are on Twitter and don’t request private profile, you are public. Same goes for Facebook. That has its pros and cons. Thanks again, Lupe, for your time and insight.
Julio I appreciate you do not remove anything from your blogs but I can tell you that reading your comments it seemed liked you were in the AVR camp. The things Alisa said were personal damaging and in no way constructive getting her message heard. Her behavior is absolutely horrible and making things personal shows her lack of professionalism. One thing for sure no one in Hollywood is going to touch her now with the team from Encanto will continue to be successful in Hollywood. Unfortunately I am sure we have not heard the last of AVR she will most certainly falsely accuse some other unsuspecting person and then cyber bullying too!
Thank you for posting this comment. Like I said to others, I respect your opinion but I am not part of AVR’s camp. Nonetheless, I have stated more than once that AVR did use social media effectively in getting her message out. The tone of the message can definitely be questioned and I did report about the impressive backgrounds of Lopez, Leschin, and Ramirez last week (or whenever it was, I have lost track LOL).
However, I am still perplexed why the other players in the game never even posted on social media about this situation. They could have just said certain things that would at least made this story more complete. I really think it was a lost opportunity for them since a lot of people I know wanted to know more about their backgrounds. We will see where this goes.
I do appreciate the comments again and thank you for visiting this blog. Will be posting a more fomal commentary about this entire situation in the next 20 minutes.
Best,
Julio