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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Groupon More Like Groupoff In Boston
Despite Groupon’s touting of Boston as “one of its biggest and most successful markets,” the Wall Street Journal reports, the daily-deal site is getting pounded here. [A]s Groupon clones have proliferated—from nine active daily-deal sites serving Boston two years ago to … Continue reading
All The ‘News Of The World’ That’s Fit To Print
The New York Times is having a field day with the Fall of the House (Organ) of Murdoch – aka the News of the World, kissin’ cousin of Times crosstown rival Wall Street Journal. Friday’s Times had five – count ’em, … Continue reading
So Maybe It WASN’T The Ads That Nabbed Whitey Bulger (IV)
The hardworking staff has dutifully detailed the many indications that the FBI-runs-an-ad-campaign-and-nabs-Whitey-Bulger story is a total myth. Now comes more skepticism from – wait for it – the Boston Herald. From Friday’s Herald: Iceland paper: Reward tale fishy A companion … Continue reading
Remembering The Great Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival Of 1970
After the hardworking staff posted this memo from a New Yorker editor adrift in Red Sox Nation, splendid reader Steve Stein commented about his own displaced experience years ago in Cincinnati: I did 7 years in Cincinnati (well, Dayton, ’76-’82) and … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Michele Bachmann Edition)
Presidential wannabe Michele Bachmann (R-Death Ceiling) has hit the Iowa airwaves with her first TV spot, in which she lays out some biographicals and emphasizes her fight “against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus.” Here ’tis: Get that last part? … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa, Michele Bachmann, sex appeal, Tim Pawlenty, Vin Weber, Waterloo
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A New Yorker (Editor) In Red Sox Nation
This email poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider today: Dear Laughter Lovers, Well, as promised, I’m up in Boston at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference. The conference proper hasn’t started yet, so I don’t have anything specific … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (RNC Edition)
The Republican National Committee has launched an ad campaign that’s sort of a drive-by attack on Pres. Obama. According to CNN’s Political Ticker, “The 30-second spot will air nationally on cable television, notably in battleground states, throughout the month. It uses a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Woodhouse, CNN, DNC, Political Ticker, Reince Priebus, RNC
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Brut Force Marketing
Lots of branded content emphasizes the latter over the former (see the late, unlamented Bud.tv or Mountain Dew’s Dew Tours). No so the Brut News Network at facebook.com/Brut. From MediaPost’s Marketing Daily: “We believe that young, male-focused online content is a burgeoning market,” says Marc … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin!
The over-under for 2012 U.S. campaign spending has officially risen to $4 billion. Some early volleys: More to come, the Boston Globe reports: Joe Miller, a former US Senate candidate from Alaska, has been spending his days in his … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 Plus, Boston Globe, Joe Miller, Mitt Romney, Priorities USA Action, RINO, Western Representation PAC
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Heinz Sight Is 20-20
From our Late to the Party desk: The hardworking staff finally read the New York Times review of At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (co-edited by redoubtable local scribe George Kimball). The anthology includes pretty much everyone you’d expect, … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, At the Fights, Brownsville Bum, Bummy Davis, George Kimball, M*A*S*H, Norman Mailer, Pete Hamill, W.C. Heinz
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