Monthly Archives: February 2011

Fox 86es John 3:16 Super Bowl Ad

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff has noted, there are lots of scambit ads associated with Super Bowl LXV (spots submitted with the express purpose of being rejected by Super Bowl broadcaster Fox Sports, the better to get press). But only one got … Continue reading →

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Campaign Outsider Super Bowl Ad Preview©

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

As if you needed more Super Bowl pre-press, here’s Campaign Outsider’s clip ‘n’ save guide to Sunday’s adstravaganza: Celebrity Sweepstakes The glitterati bakeoff features Faith Hill in a Teleflora spot, Kim Kardashian shilling for Skechers, and a Best Buy ad … Continue reading →

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Campaign Outsider Thirty-Second Theater Review®

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The Druid and Atlantic Theater Company’s mordantly melancholy and thoroughly terrific production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan (part of ArtsEmerson’s Irish Festival) has only two more days to run – Saturday and Sunday. The writing is smart – and … Continue reading →

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Hooked On iPhonecs

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Two high-profile/high-tech hall monitors have weighed in on the much-awaited Verizon iPhone, and as Johnny Most (rest his soul) liked to say, “It’s good!!!” From New York Times gadget guru David Pogue’s review: It’s here. After almost four years of … Continue reading →

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Ada Louise Huxtable: MFA’s American Wing Fails To Take Flight

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal devoted a full page of its Leisure & Arts section to the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. And – no surprise here – the paper’s dual reviews featured dueling ledes. … Continue reading →

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Al Jazeera’s ‘CNN Moment’ in the U.S.?

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The conventional wisdom (via the Los Angeles Times) has it that the current Egyptian uprising will be to the Al Jazeera English cable network what the Persian Gulf War was to CNN in the early 1990s: Some American pundits have … Continue reading →

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The Redemption Unit, V

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

(See I, II, III, and IV) Interlude My nom de plume in The Free Nameless News was J. Redmond Tardi, largely because I was late for work all the time. Part of the reason was that I took public (as … Continue reading →

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Metro Boston Pimps Out Its Front Page

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Local commuters got a bit of a surprise in – or rather, on – their copy of Metro Boston Monday morning: A four-page Revlon ad that wrapped the actual newspaper. It featured a front page entirely occupied by a cosmetics … Continue reading →

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