the fix is always in

MGM gave him a choice.

Ellen, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead or Buffalo!!

Too bad he couldn't choose Big Bang Theory, at least it has a cute chick.

Do people realize that there are Ellen slots in non-MGM casinos, too?

Not conspiracy theorists, no.

Sounds like an angle put forth by someone who has no ****ing clue how publicity/entertainment business operate.

I wonder how much MGM paid Jesus to have him forgo other interviews and only appear on Ellen.

Those Ellen slots are in Stations and Venetian too.

I think I've seen an Ellen machine in nearly every casino I've been in.

More than Hannity was offering.

Zero

If anyone is paying anything (and that's not a guarantee) it would be the show, and they would be the ones with the incentive to keep him exclusive.

MGM's incentive is far greater than that of Ellen's show. In fact, I'm not seeing how Ellen's show really has an incentive to keep it exclusive. It's not like those episodes are replayed. The incentive for Ellen's show would just be to get the first interview..ie an interview with Ellen and then no more interviews for the next 5 days.

It makes far more sense that MGM setup the interview with Ellen, with the understanding that she would only throw softball questions at him (which I believe is the general style of her interviews anyways). MGM is about to be entangled in very expensive lawsuits and it's important that they convey a very consistent story with no slip-ups.

Since as you pointed out that MGM is about to be embroiled in lawsuits they have no incentive for their security guard (who I assume is now a former security guard) to go on the show. IANAL but there seems no upside for them and no PR value that would outweigh the negative legal ramifications if he says something that ends up hurting them in court. Lawyers in pretty much any situation will only offer the advice of shut up shut up shut up.

And yes, talk shows and journalists do compete for the exclusives. This I know firsthand.

Seems that would look super sketchy for Campos to not interview at all. By interviewing with Ellen they can push the narrative that they weren't trying to hide anything. The show pushed the narrative that Campos (a representative of MGM) is a hero that saved many lives.

Do we think these shows reached out to Campos and negotiated directly with Campos? I would think this was negotiated mostly with MGM. Campos simply had to agree to do an exclusive with an interviewer that won't ask him tough questions, won't cut him off, and will give him season tickets to the Raiders and donate money on his behalf (via show sponsors).

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...egas-shooting/

http://nypost.com/2017/10/19/vegas-s...view-to-ellen/

TV insider is quite a vague description of the source.

Here is [one interpretation of Campos' media appearance:

I'm not sure why it's necessarily deplorable that the head of the union was booking interviews, unless he was getting a cut of whatever Hannity was paying.

Because modern news "reporting" always has to have a villain of some sort.

Description above makes sense. Campos was going to do a bunch of interviews and MGM couldn't stop him, but could add enormous pressure. Doing the one appearance in a safer environment and having their own legal and PR teams coach him for it was where they settled.

They could have paid him a large sum to sign an NDA. Then for PR purposes they allowed him to appear on Ellen. That is probably what happened.

Our company policy states only the PR dept. can do interviews with the media regarding corporate affairs. I'm not allowed to, if I want to keep my job.

This is pretty much what I was getting at

That makes no sense whatsoever.
If you sign a non-disclosure and are then allowed to disclose in public, what was the point of the NDA in the first place?

To me, it's far more likely that he didn't want to do any press himself. Rightly or wrongly, he felt bad and maybe even feels a part of guilt that he could've done something to stop that nutter. He doesn't want to revisit it again and again.

He finally agreed to do one appearance only, with someone who'd be openly sympathetic.

Similar to other mass shootings, Paddock's hard drive is missing.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas-s...ry?id=50709285

I thought this was interesting:

He previously agreed to multiple appearances with several news outlets, revisiting it again and again.

The point of a NDA is to control what information gets disseminated and how.

It doesn't seem interesting to me. The only people that said otherwise were the screwballs on 2p2.

So Campos ran off the Mexico for a little visit. Whatever happened to "don't leave town"? This whole investigation is a circus. And not because Mandalay Bay was build by Circus Circus.