Monthly Archives: February 2012

TV Guide: “IS TV $ELLING OUT?”

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Right question, wrong verb tense. Does any rational person really believe that the TV industry has not sold out to product placement? Regardless, TV Guide asks the (rhetorical) question in a current piece that provides this answer: Product placement isn’t new — it’s been … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Daily Town (Super Bowl Hand-Off Edition)

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Super Bowl Fever Grips Hub! And the hands doing the gripping belong to Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, whose outsized mitts were the subject of a story in Thursday’s New York Times (an honorary local daily by way of its … Continue reading →

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To Know Trump . . . (Mitt Romney Endorsement Edition)

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Donald Trump is to Corporate America what plaid is to Bermuda shorts (Campaign Outsider Analogy pat. pending). Mitt Romney, by contrast, is khaki. So how does Trump’s endorsement benefit Romney, besides locking up the comb-over vote? The big announcement from … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Takes Hard Line On Google Tracking Changes

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Google’s new piracy – sorry, privacy – policy has caused quite a ruckus this week. From PC Mag: Google Overhauls, Consolidates Privacy Policies Google said Tuesday that it has instituted a new, streamlined privacy policy that will consolidate the company’s … Continue reading →

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Solyndra Redux Edition)

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Last December Crossroads GPS , the front group for former House of Bush consigliere and current GOP gunsel Karl Rove, ran a TV spot bashing Barack Obama for funding the star-cursed energy company Solyndra, which got half-a-billion dollars from the federal government when … Continue reading →

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It’s Romneyspeak!

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Mitt Romney may be a flip-flopper, but his campaign staffers are flip-the-birders. At leaast when it comes to the news media. Exhibit Umpteen appears in ABC’s The Note, which today posted this set of DUELING MEMOS: FROM TEAM OBAMA: . … Continue reading →

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Santorum Nev-ad-a Edition)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum (R-Shouldn’t You Be at Home Taking Care of Your Daughter?) has shrugged off his third-place finish in Florida and gone full-tilt into Nevada for this Saturday’s caucuses, as The Hill duly notes: Santorum up in … Continue reading →

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Writing’s On The Wall For Stealth Advertisers

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

There’s a new front in the stealth marketing war on American consumers: urban murals sponsored by big corporations. From LA Weekly: Retna and El Mac’s Latest Mural: Stealth Advertising at Its Graffiti Best While you were sleeping, or maybe it … Continue reading →

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