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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Newt Gingrich Edition)
Newt Gingrich’s first Iowa TV spot features the on-his-meds Newt (calm, measured, focused) as opposed to the off-the-cuff Newt (popcorn machine of bad ideas). If he can keep the latter out of sight for the next few months, he just … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Yankees’ Zuck Edition)
Social network behemoth Facebook is opening its first East Coast office in New York. Not Boston. Which drew radically different coverage in the local dailies. From the Boston Globe’s Business Daily Briefing: NEW YORK – Facebook will open an engineering … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, East Coast office, Evil Empire, Facebook, Joe Sciacca, Mark Zuckerberg, Yankees' Zuck
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Occupy Boston Kitchen Sink Edition)
The Boston dailies had very different takes on the latest Occupy Boston rumpus, which involved everything including the kitchen sink. First order of business: defining what actually happened. Boston Herald lede: Extra cops surrounded Occupy Boston yesterday amid growing frustration … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, kitchen sink, Occupy Boston, police, protesters
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That’s Just So Mean! (Hillary Clinton Teeth Edition)
C’mon, guys – enough with the worst-photograph-available treatment of Hillary Clinton. Exhibit Latest: This Boston Globe’s photo depicting Clinton’s first meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, “leader of Myanmar’s long-persecuted democracy movement”: She’s the the Secretary of State for heaven’s sake. … Continue reading
Herman Cain: The Lie Detectanator
Talk about throwing good money after bad . . . Herman Cain enabler The 999 Fund has launched a $100,000 ad campaign in Iowa featuring this TV spot (via MediaBistro’s TV Spy): Aside from the 999 Fund’s inability to … Continue reading
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Tagged 999 Fund, Gloria Cain, Herman Cain, Huffington Post, MediaBistro, The Lie Detectanator, TV Spy, WGCL, Women for Cain
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Valentine’s Gay
Redoubtable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has this to say about the Red Sox installation of new manager Bobby Valentine: The Boston Red Sox installed Bobby Valentine as their new manager early Thursday evening. But you already know this. … Continue reading
Brits Try To Curry Favor With Indian Chefs
Campaign Outsider Official Foodie Alert® (International Edition): Tragically, according to a report on PRI’s The World, Great Britain is suffering a shortage of chefs who are currylicious, thanks to tighter immigration rules that “[make] it almost impossible to hire chefs from India, Pakistan … Continue reading
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Tagged Curry College, currylicious, Great Britain, PRI, The World
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Lowering The Barre For Product Placement
Nifty little pas de deux between the Alvin Ailey Dance American Dance Theater and Bristol-Myers Squibb, maker of the anti-H.I.V. drug Reyataz. As the New York Times describes it: Starting in 2006, Bristol-Myers Squibb has held a contest soliciting stories of survival called Fight … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bristol-Myers Squibb, H.I.V., New York Times, Reyataz, Sneak ADtack
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Mitt Shoe Leather
Politico’s Ben Smith fires up The Wayback Machine to deliver this 1994 video of Mitt Romney (R-Your Doorstep) retail politicking for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat: Good to know he was just as awkward with people then as he … Continue reading
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Tagged 1994, Ben Smith, Mitt Romney, Politico, The Wayback Machine, Waltham
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