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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Product Placements Face Reality (Shows)
Reality check, via Media Dynamics: The top 10 primetime shows for product placement activity on broadcast TV networks were all in the reality genre, according to Nielsen. Measuring 11 months in 2011, Nielsen found that Fox’s American Idol led the list with 577 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing Race, American Idol, Media Dynamics, Sneak ADtack, The Biggest Loser, The Celebrity Apprentice
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Shocking! Super PAC Runs Positive Ad!!
When Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s Sugar Daddy, isn’t making lame jokes about women and Bayer aspirin and keeping their knees together, he’s usually shoveling money into the pro-Santorum Super PAC Red White and Blue Fund to underwrite trash-talking TV spots … Continue reading
More Doggy Ado: Dems Stroking Dogs Against Romney
The New York Observer’s Politicker blog is leading the pack in coverage of Mitt Romney’s Walk of Seamus™. First it had this scoop last month, as the hardworking staff has noted: Did Mitt Romney’s Dog Seek Asylum In Canada? Mitt … Continue reading
More Seamus Shame For Mitt Romney
First there were the reports in 2007 about Mitt Romney strapping the family dog to the roof (ruff?) of the family station wagon for a 1983 trip to Canada. Then there was this Fox News drecksplanation in Romney’s current presidential run: (An … Continue reading
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Tagged airtight kennel, drecksplanation, FishBowl DC, Fox News, Mitt Romney, Politicker, Seamus
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Anthony Shadid, R.I.P.
The world lost a great journalist when New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died all too soon yesterday in Syria. That he was in Syria at all tells you much of what you need to know about this intrepid war-and-peace … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Shadid, BU Commencement Address, C.J. Chivers, New York Times, Syria, Tyler Hicks
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Twitter’s MisAPPropriation Of Your Private Data
The Los Angeles Times gets this week’s Long Subhed Award (pat. pending) for this piece (via Politico’s Playbook): Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries Undisclosed gathering of smartphone users’ address book data by Twitter and other social networking companies brings heightened scrutiny by … Continue reading
Seamus Gets A Ride On NPR
Call him National Public Roofdog. Famous Seamus – Mitt Romney’s ill-treated Irish setter – is having himself quite a week. From Wednesday’s New York Times: ‘Seamus on the Roof’ Prompts Howls of Protest Mitt Romney may have a new constituency to … Continue reading
Ford’s SI Swimsuit Supermuddle
Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit edition always generates supermodel sparks, but this year’s offering features a extra wrinkle (Quick – get me Photoshop!). From Adweek’s Adfreak blog: Ford Sneaks a Fake Swimsuit Model Into ‘Sports Illustrated’ Dalena Henriques may not be real, but she loves … Continue reading
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Tagged Adfreak, Adweek, Dalena Henriques, Ford Mustang, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, supermuddle, swimsuit edition
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Two Different Worlds™ (Fox News/MSNBC Mirth Control Edition)
Further proof that cable news networks exist in entirely different information universes, Contraception Division MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell Tuesday night: With 266 days to go before the presidential election, the Republicans in Congress have come up with the 266th reason … Continue reading
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Tagged contraception, Fox News, Greta van Susteren, Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC, Obama, Sarah Palin
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