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Amanda Chapel, the lovely face of public relations blog Strumpette, has been booted out of the Facebook walled garden for no better reason than someone thought she didn’t exist. This vile and calumnious action on the part of Facebook management follows closely — so closely as to be coincident with — Ms. Chapel’s decision to resign as editor of the Public Relations Industry focussed blog she started a year and a half ago.

Chapel has a brilliant record of news reporting and industry analysis and she will be missed. Her resignation leaves a huge gap in public information and coherent analysis of the propaganda engines that drive American culture. Back in April, when many of us were afraid to leave our own backyards, Ms. Chapel identified the emerging trend of public apologies and pretty much nailed the genre with this lovely epistle to B. L. Ochman. Earlier she critiqued and updated the O’Reilly rules of conduct for a happy-face Web 2-oh. Amanda has challenged conventional wisdom in her industry and she has been a voice for open and honest communication in web publishing. Her expulsion from the Facebook walled garden says more about the constipated state of corporate management than it does about her as a person or a persona. I will welcome her back, when those fools get their heads on straight. Meanwhile, I’ll just offer up the “last words” she shared in a post last March:

LAST WORDS

“I” dentity, not our-dentity. It belongs to me. I chose anonymity. Unlike [a damaged person] who recoils, I will fight against any culture (let alone lightweight moron) that thinks it can take that away from me.

I hope she meant it and that she will be back to kick some Facebook ass. We need bright and engaged contrarians now more than ever, and if the contrarian is wearing her size four LBD and CFM shoes, so much the better.

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