Report: Former top PR pro at White House will NOT work at Facebook

Wonder if the president tried to put in a good word for Robert Gibbs when he visited Facebook HQ yesterday?

Seems that’s no longer the case.

Two newspapers—both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.—are reporting that Gibbs won’t become a senior communications official at the social network.

The Wall Street Journal said Facebook was miffed about last month’s leak that Gibbs was considering the position.

Meanwhile, the New York Post‘s Page Six reported:

“Some people liked him, some people liked him a lot and others didn’t,” a source told the gossip column. “It wouldn’t be fair to say the date was great, but it wouldn’t be fair to say the date was terrible. There was no marriage proposal.”

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