Is Hiding Casey Anthony Part of A Media “Deal?”
Raw jail release video of Casey Anthony walking to freedom
From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
She walked fast, behind her lawyer, mouthed one “thank you” to a guard she knew, clmbed into an SUV and was gone into the night…With one reported stop at underground parking at her lawyer’s downtown office, that was the last siting, save for a pink shirt on a woman under an umbrella spotted heading to a private plane at a local airport.
Here’s our theory: she’s already made a major media deal and one stipulation is that she give no interviews, and no photo opps to anyone. If successful, the first photo of Casey Anthony could fetch upwards of a half million dollars, and if her story rights have been bought, that money could go to the media buyer, heavily defraying the costs of whatever deal might have been made.
It was also make financial sense for a buyer to be the one to hire a photographer to take the first set of pictures, and sell them to a magazine or tabloid as an exclusive with a short piece about her first days of freedom, nothing about the trial, Caylee or the lies…That story may fetch alot more.
So if there is a deal in the works and a buyer of record, it makes sense for the purchaser to provide security, private planes, hideouts, whatever it takes to keep their media “property” exclusive and under wraps. Like the paintings of dead artists, they may figure the value can only go higher in the tabloid marketplace.
Same goes for the lawyers whose bill must be enormous; they surely know their clients post trial value as a freebird, and may be helping her manage privacy to preserve the literary value she can use to pay her legal bill.
As part of the “package” a saavy entertainment agency would relish negotiating for such a high profile client might also include a first person book so she gets her story about what happened Out There first. If so, she’s likely holed up in a remote paradise talking to an instant memoir ghost writer, with a track record of turning such tales into best sellers.
Such book deals often mean exclusives for morning talk shows, like Dianne Sawyer, or one of the magazine shows like Dateline NBC or 60 Minutes, that first interview guaranteed to draw record ratings, and help generate record book sales. Executing a media deal like that requires security, lawyers and agents who have done it before, and understand how it has to be pulled off like a military campaign, because you often only get one shot.
Perhaps they’re also gambling that she may be received better if she vanishes from the headlines for a while, too. In Casey’s case, let us know if you think absence will make the heart grow fonder?
When O.J. Simpson did his book, “If I Did It,” public outrage put the kabosh to the deal, and then publisher Judith Reagan, wound up changing companies. Since one if his murder victims, Ron Goldman, and his family won a civil suit entitling them to $33 million in damages, they wound up owning the book and the paltry proceeds from it.
Will any book Casey Anthony does follow that pattern, making the marketing of her story a cautionary tale? There’s no victim’s family to sue her in this case, except the Nanny and others she may have defamed, and no Son of Sam statutes to prevent her from cashing in. With those roadblocks removed, does the risk reward to make a deal outweigh public outrage and blowback?
If the Simpson venture showed one thing, it was perhaps that NOT all publicity is good publicity. Media outfits who value their goodwill as an asset, may be calculating whether Casey as cash cow would be worth it.
July 24th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
It's quite possible your suggestion is true, Art.. It would make sense as to why her parents were whisked off to the Bahamas this week… Someone is paying to keep the Anthony's, and Casey secluded, and it could be the media person who is wanting the "big first", and has possibly been guaranteed first rights… To answer your question, "Will absence make the heart grow fonder"? No..For me, absence means she is closer to being out of the spotlight, and off our TV's…
Art, I hope you will cover the story about the 39 year old Missouri woman with triplets, who went to her estranged husbands' house to pick up her son..She hasn't been seen since..Her car was stranded, with a flat tire, not far from the husband's house…The (ex) husband is an ex-cop, and, is not cooperating with police…It reminds me of another case… Peterson..
July 24th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
This is sad….she should not make money over the death of her baby!
I think there will be outrage and I hope those involved will really think about this before they move ahead.
July 25th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
I don't think casey anthony is getting any offers for her story because if she was i'm sure she would jump all over it. Her lawyer is trying to say she wants therapy first but i don't believe that at all. She shouldn't be worth anything because she never was before and why should she become a millionaire off of a daughter she cared so little about that she was found in a swamp?
July 27th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Well said.
July 26th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I think Casey's parents should take her to civil court and take away any money she might take in as a kind of recompense for being responsible for the loss of their grandaughter, not to mention defamation of George's character! Payback's a biatch!
July 27th, 2011 at 11:46 am
As the saying goes, "Thank God and Greyhound she's gone." Only in this case it was a private jet. I cannot think anyone would be interested in Casey or her parents by next month much less six months from now. She has already reached her "sell-by" date and is well on her way to expiration. There was so much coverage of all things Casey Anthony that the saturation point has already been reached. Most of the anger generated has been spent and reconciled and people are ready to move on. Personal Example: I haven't watched HLN for over a week and a half because they are still flogging the story. It's a dead horse. Let it go.
July 27th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Excellent comment. So you think that first exclusive interview value has dropped?
July 27th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
I don't think there ever was a value to her interview except in the mind of the media. They ignored the most salient feature of Casey Anthony – she lies. It doesn't matter who will interview her, she'll lie. There are already mind numbing hours of her lying on tape, who needs more? I cannnot imagine anything more boring.
July 27th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Diane Diamond, who sat in for NG tonight didn't mention her…In the South we say, PTL.. (praise the Lord)..The queen of lying is fading…Baez is squirming..She is his meal ticket, or so he thought.. I am more interested in REAL missing children…Caylee was never missing..I am glad she is facing all those lawsuits…Whether they succeed, I hope it makes her think about the damage she has done to many people… I agree with Ellicia, it's time to move on…
July 29th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I truly hope all the major new's outlet's are smart enough not to pay her because if they do the public will make them pay by boycotting the.thsi poor innocent child's family has thrown her away like yesterday's garbage and now only have dollar sign's in their eye's.they are all provwn LIAR"S and you can't believe a word any of them say.Baez is keeping her hid because she is his cash cow!!!!!
August 14th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Art, The people who would buy, the HLN and Court TV watchers are the target audience. Most of those would not buy. They are boycotting. People are not going to line her pockets and reward her for murder. They are outraged by the verdict and this is the only recourse they have at a resolution.
I would hope that the media would take the moral high ground here and resist the temptation to strike a deal. The exploitation of victims particularly children, has got to stop.
I read tonight she has struck a deal for the high six figures and will have a ghost writer. I can only hope it is not true.
OJ's book was a disaster for the publisher. This would be so much worse.
August 15th, 2011 at 12:33 am
Jen, thanks for your note…good observations. Art
August 15th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I beg to differ, everyone was so caught up in the Casey saga I believe if an interview or a book comes out that all the people who plan to boycott will not be able to stop themselves from watching or reading to see what she has to say, myself included. Also I feel sooo sorry for George and Cindy I don't understand why some people say such awful things about them.Shame on you all for that.
September 4th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Sept. 4, 'll
I read alot of blogs, and most are no longer interested in Baby Killer or her slimey parents. Baez is racking his numb skull thinking of ways to make more Blood Money. It's just not going to work! Killer also owes the State of Fla. around $500,000 and I hope and pray that the courts make her pay that as soon as she possibly can. Unfortunately, her sleezy parents have already made a huge pile of Blood Money. They can't get much lower. imo