Marti Mackenzie bows out with tongue in cheek

Marti Mackenzie bows out with tongue in cheek

posted by halboedeker on February, 17 2010 4:21 PM

Marti Mackenzie stepped down this week as the media-relations contact on the Casey Anthony case.

In departing, Mackenzie questioned the attention she received from WFTV-Channel 9’s hard-charging Kathi Belich.

“I find it hard to believe that my resignation as the media-relations contact for defense lawyers on the Casey Anthony case is news-worthy the day after — then again maybe it’s because it is the Anthony case,” Mackenzie wrote.

Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Mackenzie had a request if Belich does another story: “Please mention my book — I’m in the PR business (for real money!) and I welcome the promotion.”

That book is “Courting the Media: Public Relations for the Accused and the Accusers” from Greenwood Press in 2007.

In the e-mail, Mackenzie also talked about her compensation for working on the Anthony case.

“When I was hired in February 2009, I was asked at a press conference if I was paid and I confirmed that I was indeed paid — unlike the infamous Todd Black,” Mackenzie wrote.

Todd Black was a name used three spokesmen working for defense attorney Jose Baez.

“I can see why someone might ask that question of people who tag along on these high-profile cases, but I have been doing this for over twenty years,” Mackenzie wrote.

Mackenzie added that she was “paid throughout my months of work with the defense team members” and that she resigned from helping the defense team “for confidential professional reasons.”


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